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Jet-medium interactions: wakes in the QCD medium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We calculate the wake induced in a hot, dense QCD medium by a fast parton in the framework of linear response theory. We discuss two different scenarios: (i) a weakly coupled quark gluon plasma (pQGP) described by hard-thermal loop (HTL) perturbation theory and (ii) a scenario where the plasma has the properties of a quantum liquid. We show that Mach cones can appear in the second scenario, but not in the first one.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0510386,
  title  = {Jet-medium interactions: wakes in the QCD medium},
  author = {Jorg Ruppert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0510386},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, poster proceedings for Quark Matter 2005