A new pQCD based Monte Carlo event generator for jets in the quark-gluon plasma
Abstract
A main difficulty in understanding the dynamics of jets produced in the high-density environment of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision, is to provide a unified description for the two sources of radiation that are a priori expected: the "vacuum-like" emissions responsible for the parton shower from large virtualities down to the hadronisation scale and the "medium-induced" emissions responsible for the energy loss by the jet. In the recent paper arXiv:1801.09703, we demonstrated that these two mechanisms can be factorized from each other within a controlled, "double-logarithmic" approximation in perturbative QCD. In this proceeding we recall the main features of the jet evolution in a dense QCD medium. We emphasize that the in-medium parton showers differ from those in the vacuum in two crucial aspects: their phase-space is reduced and the first emission outside the medium can violate angular ordering. Based on this factorized picture, which is Markovian, we have recently developed a Monte Carlo event generator which includes both vacuum-like and medium-induced emissions and goes beyond the double logarithmic approximation. We here present our first results for the fragmentation function and the energy loss by the jet.
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@article{arxiv.1812.05393,
title = {A new pQCD based Monte Carlo event generator for jets in the quark-gluon plasma},
author = {Paul Caucal and Edmond Iancu and Alfred H. Mueller and Gregory Soyez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05393},
year = {2018}
}
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8 pages, 6 figures, for the International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, 30 September - 5 October 2018 in Aix-Les-Bains, Savoie, France