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We present an overview of a perturbative-kinetic approach to jet propagation, energy loss, and momentum broadening in a high temperature quark-gluon plasma. The leading-order kinetic equations describe the interactions between energetic…

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We present an elementary discussion of the momentum transferred by an electromagnetic wave propagating in a dispersive medium. Our analysis is based on Minkowski's electromagnetic momentum density which have been recently seen to be…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Rodrigo Medina , J. Stephany

The dynamics of {\it light} fermions propagating in a spatial direction at high temperatures can be described effectively by a two--dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with {\it heavy} effective mass $m_{\rm eff} = \pi T$. Starting from QED,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 V. Koch , E. V. Shuryak , G. E. Brown , A. D. Jackson

The energy loss of high p_T partons propagating through a hot and dense medium is regarded as a valuable tool to probe the medium created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The angular correlation pattern of hadrons associated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Renk

We study the transport dynamics of momenta deposited from jets in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Assuming that the high-energy partons traverse expanding quark-gluon fluids and are subject to lose their energy and momentum, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-20 Yasuki Tachibana , Tetsufumi Hirano

In this work, we obtain the leading corrections to the jet momentum broadening distribution in a QCD medium arising from the transverse flow of the matter. We first derive the single-particle propagator of a highly energetic parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-01 Carlota Andres , Fabio Dominguez , Andrey V. Sadofyev , Carlos A. Salgado

We extend the Gyulassy-Levai-Vitev reaction operator approach to multiple elastic scattering of fast partons traversing dense nuclear matter to take into account the leading power corrections due to the medium recoil and to derive the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jianwei Qiu , Ivan Vitev

We present a study of the generalized parton distributions for the quarks in a proton in both momentum and position spaces using the light-front wave functions of a quark-diquark model for the nucleon predicted by the soft-wall model of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-14 Chandan Mondal , Dipankar Chakrabarti

The next-to-leading order and leading order analysis are performed on the differential cross section ratio from Drell-Yan process. It is found that the effect of next-to-leading order corrections can be negligible on the differential cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Chun-Gui Duan , Na Liu , Zhan-Yuan Yan

Fourier transforming the virtual photon transverse momentum in \gamma*(q)+N \to f processes allows new insight into hadron dynamics as a function of impact parameter b. I discuss how previous analyses of charge density based on elastic and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Paul Hoyer

Color transparency (CT) in high momentum transfer $(e,e' \vec p)$ reactions is explored. The spin of the proton and photon are treated explicitly, hence the name ``Vector CT". The Dirac distorted wave impulse approximation is used as a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 W. R. Greenberg , G. A. Miller

We report an analysis of the nuclear dependence of the yield of Drell-Yan (DY) dimuons from the 800 GeV/c proton bombardment of $^2H$, C, Ca, Fe, and W targets. A light-cone formulation of the DY process is employed in the rest frame of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Moss , G. T. Garvey , M. B. Johnson , M. J. Leitch , P. L. McGaughey , J. -C. Peng B. Z. Kopeliovich , I. K. Potashnikova

Heavy quarks serve as crucial probes for exploring the properties of the hot and dense medium formed in heavy-ion collision experiments. Understanding the modification of their energy as they traverse the medium is a focal point of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Jai Prakash , Mohammad Yousuf Jamal

The evolution of the symmetry energy coefficient of the binding energy of hot fragments with increasing excitation is explored in multifragmentation processes following heavy-ion collisions below the Fermi energy. In this work,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 G. A. Souliotis , A. S. Botvina , D. V. Shetty , A. L. Keksis , M. Jandel , M. Veselsky , S. J. Yennello

We study the energy loss of a heavy quark propagating in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in the framework of the Moller theory, including possible large Coulomb logarithms as a perturbation to BDMPSZ bremsstrahlung, described in the Harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 B. Blok

We discuss the antiGZK effect in the diffusive propagation of ultra high energy protons in intergalactic magnetic fields, which consists in a jump-like increase of the maximum distance from which ultra high energy protons can reach an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Aloisio , V. S. Berezinsky

Semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering on nuclear targets is an ideal tool to study the energy loss effect of an outgoing quark in a nuclear medium. By means of the short hadron formation time, the experimental data with quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-27 Li-Hua Song , Chun-Gui Duan

Propagation of energetic particles across the mean field direction in turbulent magnetic fields is often described as spatial diffusion. Recently, it has been suggested that initially the particles propagate systematically along meandering…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-06-22 T. Laitinen , S. Dalla , D. Marriott

The transport of charged particles in disorganised magnetic fields is an important issue which concerns the propagation of cosmic rays of all energies in a variety of astrophysical environments, such as the interplanetary, interstellar and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabien Casse , Martin Lemoine , Guy Pelletier

The photon bremsstrahlung rate from a quark jet produced in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) off a large nucleus is studied in the collinear limit. The leading medium-enhanced higher twist corrections which describe the multiple scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Majumder , R. J. Fries , B. Müller