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Incorporating Space-Time Within Medium-Modified Jet Event Generators

Nuclear Theory 2013-08-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We outline a novel approach to develop an in-medium shower Monte-Carlo event generator based on the higher-twist formalism of jet modification. By undoing one of the light-cone integrals which sets the corresponding light-cone momentum to be equal in the amplitude and the complex conjugate, we introduce an uncertainty in the smaller light-cone momentum component. This allows for the generalization of the standard analytic formalism to a Wigner transform like formalism, where the non-conjugate large light-cone momentum and position are retained for each parton. Jets are generated event-by-event by simulating this Wigner transform kernel. Simple results for longitudinal distributions of partons and hadrons from jets propagating through a hot brick of strongly interacting matter are presented. Values of the transport coefficient q^\hat{q} are dialed to match phenomenologically relevant cases.

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@article{arxiv.1301.5323,
  title  = {Incorporating Space-Time Within Medium-Modified Jet Event Generators},
  author = {Abhijit Majumder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5323},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

13 pages, 8 figures, references added, introduction updated

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