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Jet Quenching from soft QCD Scattering in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We show that partons traversing a quark-gluon plasma can lose substantial amounts of energy also by scatterings, and not only through medium-induced radiation as mainly considered previously. Results from Monte Carlo simulations of soft interactions of partons, emerging from a hard scattering, through multiple elastic scatterings on gluons in an expanding relativistic plasma show a sizeable jet quenching which can account for a substantial part of the effect observed in RHIC data.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0512300,
  title  = {Jet Quenching from soft QCD Scattering in the Quark-Gluon Plasma},
  author = {Korinna Zapp and Gunnar Ingelman and Johan Rathsman and Johanna Stachel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0512300},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

accepted for publication in Physics Letters B