Jet fragmentation in a dense QCD medium
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2018-11-30 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study the fragmentation of a jet propagating in a dense quark-gluon plasma. Using a leading, double-logarithmic approximation in perturbative QCD, we compute for the first time the effects of the medium on the vacuum-like emissions. We show that, due to the scatterings off the plasma, the in-medium parton showers differ from the vacuum ones in two crucial aspects: their phase-space is reduced and the first emission outside the medium can violate angular ordering. We compute the jet fragmentation function and find results in qualitative agreement with measurements at the LHC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1811.12275,
title = {Jet fragmentation in a dense QCD medium},
author = {Paul Caucal and Edmond Iancu and Alfred H. Mueller and Gregory Soyez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.12275},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
11 pages, 8 figures, XIII Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum - Confinement2018. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1807.11229