Probing the color structure of the perfect QCD fluids via soft-hard-event-by-event azimuthal correlations

Abstract

We develop a comprehensive dynamical framework, CIBJET, to calculate on an event-by-event basis the dependence of correlations between soft (pT < 2 GeV) and hard (pT > 10 GeV) azimuthal flow angle harmonics on the color composition of near-perfect QCD fluids produced in high energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC. CIBJET combines consistently predictions of event-by-event VISHNU2+1 viscous hydrodynamic fluid fields with CUJET3.1 predictions of event-by-event jet quenching. We find that recent correlation data favor a temperature dependent color composition including bleached chromo-electric q(T)+g(T) components and an emergent chromo-magnetic degrees of freedom m(T) consistent with non-perturbative lattice QCD information in the confinement/deconfinement temperature range.