Radiative energy loss of high-energy partons traversing an expanding QCD plasma

Mar, 1998
19 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 58 (1998) 1706-1713
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Report number:
  • BI-TP-98-04,
  • LPTHE-ORSAY-98-20

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Abstract:
We study analytically the medium-induced energy loss of a high energy parton passing through a finite size QCD plasma, which is expanding longitudinally according to Bjorken's model. We extend the BDMPS formalism already applied to static media to the case of a quark which hits successive layers of matter of decreasing temperature, and we show that the resulting radiative energy loss can be as large as 6 times the corresponding one in a static plasma at the reference temperature T=T(L)T = T (L), which is reached after the quark propagates a distance LL.
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • energy loss: parton
  • jet: transverse momentum
  • multiple scattering
  • master equation
  • gluon: radiation
  • hydrodynamics