Parton Energy Loss in the Extremely Prolate Quark-Gluon Plasma
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-05-15 v3 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The energy loss per unit path length of a highly energetic parton scattering elastically in a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma is studied as an initial value problem. The approach is designed to study unstable plasmas but in the case of an equilibrium plasma the well known result is reproduced. As an example of an unstable system, an extremely prolate plasma, where the momentum distribution is infinitely elongated along one direction, is considered here. The energy loss is shown to be strongly time and directionally dependent and its magnitude can much exceed the energy loss in equilibrium plasma.
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@article{arxiv.1301.4563,
title = {Parton Energy Loss in the Extremely Prolate Quark-Gluon Plasma},
author = {Margaret E. Carrington and Katarzyna Deja and Stanislaw Mrowczynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.4563},
year = {2013}
}
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presented by K. Deja at the Xth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, October 8-12, 2012, Munich, Germany