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The evolving distribution of hard partons traversing a hot strongly interacting plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-08-03 v2 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present results for the evolution of the momentum distribution of a hard parton traversing a brick of quark-gluon plasma, considering both bremsstrahlung and collisional energy loss. The complete leading order transition rates are included. We find a significant modification of the evolving momentum distribution compared to results obtained by employing an approximate implementation of the collisional energy loss that uses the mean energy loss, together with momentum diffusion.

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@article{arxiv.0901.3498,
  title  = {The evolving distribution of hard partons traversing a hot strongly interacting plasma},
  author = {Bjoern Schenke and Charles Gale and Guang-You Qin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3498},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 9 figures, references updated and added