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AA,Pythia<br />

I<br />

2.5<br />

2.0<br />

1.5<br />

1.0<br />

0.5<br />

0.0<br />

Near si<strong>de</strong><br />

8 GeV/c < p < 15 GeV/c<br />

T,trig<br />

0-5% / Pythia<br />

60-90% / Pythia<br />

Points: flat pe<strong>de</strong>stal<br />

Line: v2<br />

subtracted<br />

ALICE preliminary<br />

p < p<br />

T,assoc<br />

T,trig<br />

2.5<br />

2.0<br />

1.5<br />

1.0<br />

0.5<br />

0.0<br />

2 4 6 8 10<br />

p (GeV/c)<br />

T,assoc<br />

Away si<strong>de</strong><br />

8 GeV/c < p < 15 GeV/c<br />

T,trig<br />

0-5% / Pythia<br />

60-90% / Pythia<br />

ALICE preliminary<br />

p < p<br />

T,assoc<br />

2 4 6 8 10<br />

(GeV/c)<br />

p<br />

T,assoc<br />

T,trig<br />

Points: flat pe<strong>de</strong>stal<br />

Line: v2<br />

subtracted<br />

Figure 4: IAA,Pythia: the data points are calculated with a flat pe<strong>de</strong>stal; the line is based on v2 subtracted yields.<br />

that the away si<strong>de</strong> is <strong>de</strong>scribed well without applying an additional scaling. The scaling factor<br />

interpolated to the Pb-Pb energy of 2.76 TeV is then found to be 0.93 ± 13%.<br />

Yields extracted from Pythia 6.4 Perugia-0 with the mentioned scaling factor are used to<br />

measure IAA,Pythia, shown in Fig. 4. As before the data points use the flat pe<strong>de</strong>stal subtraction<br />

<strong>and</strong> the lines use the v2 subtraction. The difference is rather small <strong>and</strong> only in the smallest<br />

pT,assoc bins. IAA,Pythia in peripheral events is consistent with unity, but the near si<strong>de</strong> is slightly<br />

higher than the away si<strong>de</strong>. This could indicate a slightly different <strong>de</strong>scription of the near <strong>and</strong><br />

away si<strong>de</strong> in the MC. The qualitative behavior of IAA,Pythia in central events is consistent with<br />

ICP. The away si<strong>de</strong> is suppressed <strong>and</strong> the near si<strong>de</strong> significantly enhanced. Such an enhancement<br />

has not been reported at lower energies. E.g. STAR measured a near-si<strong>de</strong> IAA consistent with<br />

unity 3 .<br />

Near-Si<strong>de</strong> Enhancement A near-si<strong>de</strong> enhancement at LHC was predicted albeit for larger<br />

pT,trig: an enhancement of 10 − 20% is reported <strong>and</strong> attributed to the enhanced relative abundance<br />

of quarks w.r.t. gluons escaping the medium. 8 Gluons couple stronger to the medium<br />

due to their different color charge <strong>and</strong> their abundance is reduced. The quarks fragment har<strong>de</strong>r<br />

<strong>and</strong> thus produce an enhanced associated yield. Furthermore, a near-si<strong>de</strong> enhancement can be<br />

un<strong>de</strong>rstood if one assumes that the near-si<strong>de</strong> parton is also quenched. Then trigger particles<br />

with similar pT stem from partons with higher pT in Pb-Pb collisions than in pp collisions.<br />

Consequently, more energy is available for particle production on near <strong>and</strong> away si<strong>de</strong>.<br />

It should be stressed that a MC was used as a reference for IAA,Pythia <strong>and</strong> it will be interesting<br />

to study if IAA using pp collisions shows the same behavior. Such a study is ongoing using newly<br />

taken data of pp collisions provi<strong>de</strong>d by the LHC in the week after this conference.<br />

References<br />

1. K. Aamodt et al. [ ALICE Collaboration ], Phys. Lett. B696 (<strong>2011</strong>) 30-39.<br />

2. A. Adare et al. [ PHENIX Collaboration ], Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (2010) 252301.<br />

3. J. Adams et al. [ STAR Collaboration ], Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 162301.<br />

4. K. Aamodt et al. [ ALICE Collaboration ], JINST 3 (2008) S08002.<br />

5. K. Aamodt et al. [ ALICE Collaboration ], Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252302 (2010).<br />

6. T. Sjöstr<strong>and</strong>, Comput. Phys. Commun. 82, 74 (1994)<br />

7. P.Z. Sk<strong>and</strong>s, arXiv:0905.3418[hep-ph] (2009).<br />

8. T. Renk <strong>and</strong> K. J. Eskola, Phys. Rev. C 77 (2008) 044905.

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