QGP collective effects and jet transport
Abstract
We present numerical simulations of the SU(2) Boltzmann-Vlasov equation including both hard elastic particle collisions and soft interactions mediated by classical Yang-Mills fields. We provide an estimate of the coupling of jets to a hot isotropic plasma, which is independent of infrared cutoffs. In addition, we investigate jet propagation in anisotropic plasmas, as created in heavy-ion collisions. The broadening of jets is found to be stronger along the beam line than in azimuth due to the creation of field configurations with B_t>E_t and E_z>B_z via plasma instabilities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0804.4557,
title = {QGP collective effects and jet transport},
author = {Bjoern Schenke and Adrian Dumitru and Yasushi Nara and Michael Strickland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4557},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures. Presented at the 20th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: Quark Matter 2008 (QM2008), Jaipur, India, 4-10 Feb 2008