Jet quenching and broadening: The Transport coefficient q-hat in an anisotropic plasma
Jun, 20086 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.C 78 (2008) 064906
e-Print:
- 0806.0954 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- BI-TP-2008-05,
- HD-THEP-2008-14
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The jet quenching parameter is analyzed for a quark jet propagating in an anisotropic plasma. The momentum anisotropy is calculated at high temperature of the underlying quark-gluon plasma. is explicitly estimated in leading-logarithmic approximation by the broadening of the massless quark interacting via gluon exchange. A plasma instability is present. Strong indications are found that is increasing with increasing anisotropy. Possible implications for the saturation scale in collisions are pointed out.- 25.75.Nq
- 24.85.+p
- 25.75.Gz
- 12.38.Mh
- scattering: heavy ion
- gold
- momentum: anisotropy
- jet: quenching
- transport theory
- gas: temperature
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