Thermalization of a jet wake in QCD kinetic theory
Nuclear Theory
2023-08-03 v1
Abstract
We study the energy deposition of a high-momentum parton traveling through a Quark-Gluon Plasma using QCD kinetic theory. We show that the energy is first transported to the soft sector by collinear cascade and then isotropised by elastic scatterings. Remarkably, we find that the jet wake can be well described by a thermal distribution function with angle-dependent temperature. This could be used for effective phenomenological descriptions of jet thermalization in realistic heavy-ion collision simulations.
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@article{arxiv.2308.01177,
title = {Thermalization of a jet wake in QCD kinetic theory},
author = {Fabian Zhou and Jasmine Brewer and Aleksas Mazeliauskas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01177},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
6 pages, 7 figures, proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2023)