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The LPM effect in sequential bremsstrahlung: analytic results for sub-leading (single) logarithms

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-08-22 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Consider the in-medium splitting gggg \to gg of a very high-energy gluon traversing a QCD medium, accounting for the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect. It has been known for some time that soft radiative corrections to that splitting generate a double-log correction to the splitting rate, whose effects can be absorbed into running of the medium parameter q^\hat q describing the rate of transverse momentum kicks to high-energy particles due to small-angle scattering from the medium. Less has been known about sub-leading, single logarithms in this context. In this paper, we find analytic formulas for those single logs (with various caveats and clarifications).

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@article{arxiv.2112.05161,
  title  = {The LPM effect in sequential bremsstrahlung: analytic results for sub-leading (single) logarithms},
  author = {Peter Arnold and Tyler Gorda and Shahin Iqbal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.05161},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

54 pages, 20 figures. Chages from v1 are superficial -- mostly a slight expansion of the introduction and conclusion

R2 v1 2026-06-24T08:11:22.850Z