Recombination of shower partons in fragmentation processes
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-02-01 v2 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We develop the notion of shower partons and determine their distributions in jets in the framework of the recombination model. The shower parton distributions obtained render a good fit of the fragmentation functions. We then illustrate the usefulness of the distributions in a problem where a jet is produced in the environment of thermal partons as in heavy-ion collisions. The recombination of shower and thermal partons is shown to be more important than fragmentation. Application to the study of two-particle correlation in a jet is also carried out.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0312271,
title = {Recombination of shower partons in fragmentation processes},
author = {Rudolph C. Hwa and C. B. Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0312271},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Extensive expansion with additional figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. C