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Jet coherence in QCD media: the antenna radiation spectrum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-28 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the radiation of a highly energetic partonic antenna in a colored state traversing a dense QCD medium. Resumming multiple scatterings of all involved constituents with the medium we derive the general gluon spectrum which encompasses both longitudinal color coherence between scattering centers in the medium, responsible for the well known Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect, and transverse color coherence between partons inside a jet, leading, in vacuum, to angular ordering of the parton shower. We discuss shortly the onset of transverse decoherence which is reached in opaque media. In this regime, the spectrum consists of independent radiation off the antenna constituents.

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@article{arxiv.1105.1346,
  title  = {Jet coherence in QCD media: the antenna radiation spectrum},
  author = {Yacine Mehtar-Tani and Konrad Tywoniuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1346},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, 2 figures, paper shortened and partly rewritten, references added, results unchanged