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The LPM effect in sequential bremsstrahlung: 4-gluon vertices

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-11-23 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The splitting processes of bremsstrahlung and pair production in a medium are coherent over large distances in the very high energy limit, which leads to a suppression known as the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect. In this paper, we continue study of the case when the coherence lengths of two consecutive splitting processes overlap (which is important for understanding corrections to standard treatments of the LPM effect in QCD), avoiding soft-gluon approximations. In particular, this paper completes the calculation of the rate for real double gluon bremsstrahlung from an initial gluon with various simplifying assumptions (thick media; q^\hat q approximation; and large NcN_c) by now including processes involving 4-gluon vertices.

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@article{arxiv.1608.05718,
  title  = {The LPM effect in sequential bremsstrahlung: 4-gluon vertices},
  author = {Peter Arnold and Han-Chih Chang and Shahin Iqbal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05718},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

35 pages, 17 figures [changes from v1: minor typo fixes and minor referencing updates]

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