2009, Vol.12, No.4, pp.519-523
The ridge particles associated with a near-side jet are identified as
medium partons kicked by the jet near the surface. They carry direct
information on the parton momentum distribution at the moment of
jet-parton collisions and the magnitude of the longitudinal momentum
kick. The extracted early parton momentum distribution has a rapidity
plateau structure with a thermal-like transverse momentum
distribution. Such a rapidity plateau structure may arise from
particle production in flux tubes, as color charges and anti-color
charges separate at high energies.
Key words:
heavy-ion collisions, particles associated with a jet, early
parton momentum distribution, string fragmentation
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