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Classical vs quantum corrections to jet broadening in a weakly-coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-11-16 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The transverse momentum broadening coefficient q^\hat{q} receives both soft, classical and radiative, quantum corrections. The former are responsible for a large O(g) correction, whereas the latter enter at relative order αs\alpha_s, but are enhanced by a double logarithm of the length of the medium over the thermal wavelength. We analyze radiative corrections for a weakly-coupled quark-gluon plasma. We find that a thermal population of dynamical gluons changes the boundaries and reduces the size of the double-logarithmic phase space. It also provides new subdominant logarithmic corrections. We also show how the quantum, double-logarithmic and classical, soft phase spaces are smoothly connected once the radiated gluon becomes soft enough. Finally, we discuss a pathway to a determination of radiative corrections beyond the harmonic-oscillator approximation.

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@article{arxiv.2207.08842,
  title  = {Classical vs quantum corrections to jet broadening in a weakly-coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma},
  author = {Jacopo Ghiglieri and Eamonn Weitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08842},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

26 pages plus appendices, 9 figures. v2: minor typographical fixes, matches JHEP version