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| Format: | Preprint |
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2025
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09523 |
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- Considerable evidence now exists for partonic energy loss due to interaction with the hot, dense medium created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A primary signal of this energy loss is the suppression of high transverse momentum $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ hadron yields in A-A collisions relative to appropriately scaled $pp$ collisions at the same energy. Measuring the collision energy dependence of this energy loss is vital to understanding the medium, but it is difficult to disentangle the medium-driven energy loss from the natural kinematic variance of the steeply-falling $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ spectra across different $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$. To decouple these effects, we utilize a phenomenologically motivated spectrum shift model to estimate the average transverse momentum loss $Δp_{\mathrm{T}}$ imparted on high $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ partons in A-A collisions, a proxy for the medium induced energy loss. We observe a striking correlation between $Δp_{\mathrm{T}}$ and Glauber-derived estimates of initial state energy density $\varepsilon_{\mathrm{Bj}}$, consistent across two orders of magnitude in collision energy for a variety of nuclear species. To access the path-length dependence of energy loss, we couple our model to geometric event shape estimates extracted from Glauber calculations to produce predictions for high-$p_{\mathrm{T}}$ hadron elliptic flow $v_2$ that agree reasonably with data.