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In-medium jet evolution: interplay between broadening and decoherence effects

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-02-22 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The description of the modifications of the coherence pattern in a parton shower, in the presence of a QGP, has been actively addressed in recent studies. Among the several achievements, finite energy corrections, transverse momentum broadening due to medium interactions and interference effects between successive emissions have been extensively improved as they seem to be essential features for a correct description of the results obtained in heavy-ion collisions. In this work, based on the insights of our previous work [1], we explore the physical interplay between broadening and decoherence, by generalising previous studies of medium-modifications of the antenna spectrum [2, 3, 4] - so far restricted to the case where transverse motion is neglected. The result allow us to identify two quantities controlling the decoherence of a medium modified shower that can be used as building blocks for a successful future generation of jet quenching Monte Carlo simulators: a generalisation of the Δmed\Delta_{med} parameter of the works of [2, 4] - that controls the interplay between the transverse scale of the hard probe and the transverse resolution of the medium - and of the Δcoh\Delta_{coh} in [1] - that dictates the interferences between two emitters as a function of the transverse momentum broadening acquired by multiple scatterings with the medium.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08742,
  title  = {In-medium jet evolution: interplay between broadening and decoherence effects},
  author = {Liliana Apolinário and Néstor Armesto and Guilherme Milhano and Carlos A. Salgado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08742},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Proceedings for Quark Matter 2015 (corrected version)

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