Angular dependence of the radiative gluon spectrum and the energy loss of hard jets in QCD media

Jul, 1999
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 60 (1999) 064902
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Report number:
  • BI-TP-99-16,
  • BICOCCA-FT-99-21,
  • CU-TP-943,
  • LPT-ORSAY-99-50

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Abstract:
The induced momentum spectrum of soft gluons radiated from a high energy quark propagating through a QCD medium is derived in the BDMPS formalism. A calorimetric measurement for the medium dependent energy lost by a jet with opening angle θcone\theta_{{\rm cone}} is proposed.The fraction of this energy loss with respect to the integrated one appears to be the relevant observable.It exhibits a universal behaviour in terms of the variable θcone2L3q^\theta^2_{{\rm cone}} L^3 \hat q where LL is the size of the medium and q^\hat q the transport coefficient. Phenomenological implications for the differences between cold and hot QCD matter are discussed.
  • quantum chromodynamics: matter
  • gluon: radiation
  • momentum spectrum: gluon
  • angular dependence
  • Feynman graph
  • final-state interaction
  • quark: jet
  • jet: energy loss
  • temperature
  • numerical calculations