Classical vs quantum corrections to jet broadening in a weakly-coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma
Abstract
The transverse momentum broadening coefficient 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 , 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