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Main Authors: Yang, Zhong, Wang, Xin-Nian
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23780
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author Yang, Zhong
Wang, Xin-Nian
author_facet Yang, Zhong
Wang, Xin-Nian
contents In this Research Perspective, we briefly review the diffusion wake, a distinctive consequence of the Mach-cone wake induced by the supersonic jets in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The diffusion wake depletes soft hadrons in the direction opposite to the propagating jet. According to coupled transport and hydrodynamic simulations, a valley in the 2-dimensional jet-hadron correlation in azimuthal angle and rapidity arises on the top of the multiple parton interaction ridge as an unambiguous signal of the diffusion wake induced by $γ$-jets in heavy-ion collisions. In dijet events with a finite rapidity gap, the rapidity asymmetry of the jet-hadron correlation has been shown to be a robust signal of the diffusion wake. The same rapidity asymmetry can also be applied to $γ$-jet events and both are background free. Experimental measurements of these signals can provide valuable insights into the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
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spellingShingle Diffusion wake: a distinctive consequence of the Mach-cone wake induced by supersonic jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
Yang, Zhong
Wang, Xin-Nian
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
In this Research Perspective, we briefly review the diffusion wake, a distinctive consequence of the Mach-cone wake induced by the supersonic jets in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The diffusion wake depletes soft hadrons in the direction opposite to the propagating jet. According to coupled transport and hydrodynamic simulations, a valley in the 2-dimensional jet-hadron correlation in azimuthal angle and rapidity arises on the top of the multiple parton interaction ridge as an unambiguous signal of the diffusion wake induced by $γ$-jets in heavy-ion collisions. In dijet events with a finite rapidity gap, the rapidity asymmetry of the jet-hadron correlation has been shown to be a robust signal of the diffusion wake. The same rapidity asymmetry can also be applied to $γ$-jet events and both are background free. Experimental measurements of these signals can provide valuable insights into the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
title Diffusion wake: a distinctive consequence of the Mach-cone wake induced by supersonic jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23780