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Quantifying jet transport properties via large hadron production
Nuclear modification factor for large single hadron is studied
in a next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) parton model with
medium-modified fragmentation functions (mFFs) due to jet quenching in
high-energy heavy-ion collisions. The energy loss of the hard partons in the
QGP is incorporated in the mFFs which utilize two most important parameters to
characterize the transport properties of the hard parton jets: the jet
transport parameter and the mean free path , both at
the initial time . A phenomenological study of the experimental data
for is performed to constrain the two parameters with
simultaneous fits to RHIC as well as LHC data. We obtain
for energetic quarks GeV/fm and
fm in central collisions at
GeV, while GeV/fm, and
fm in central collisions at
TeV. Numerical analysis shows that the best fit favors a
multiple scattering picture for the energetic jets propagating through the bulk
medium, with a moderate averaged number of gluon emissions. Based on the best
constraints for and , the estimated value for the
mean-squared transverse momentum broadening is moderate which implies that the
hard jets go through the medium with small reflection.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, revised versio
The long-lasting optical afterglow plateau of short burst GRB 130912A
The short burst GRB 130912A was detected by Swift, Fermi satellites and
several ground-based optical telescopes. Its X-ray light curve decayed with
time normally. The optical emission, however, displayed a long term plateau,
which is the longest one in current short GRB observations. In this work we
examine the physical origin of the X-ray and optical emission of this peculiar
event. We find that the canonical forward shock afterglow emission model can
account for the X-ray and optical data self-consistently and the energy
injection model that has been widely adopted to interpret the
shallowly-decaying afterglow emission is not needed. We also find that the
burst was born in a very-low density interstellar medium, consistent with the
compact object merger model. Significant fractions of the energy of the forward
shock have been given to accelerate the non-thermal electrons and amplify the
magnetic fields (i.e., and , respectively), which are much larger than those inferred in most short
burst afterglow modeling and can explain why the long-lasting optical afterglow
plateau is rare in short GRBs.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
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