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Radiative energy loss of high energy partons traversing an expanding QCD plasma

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: We study analytically the medium-induced energy loss of a high energy parton passing through a finite size QCD plasma, which is expanding longitudinally according to Bjorken's model. We extend the Baier-Dokshitzer-Mueller-Peign\'e-Schiff formalism already applied to static media to the case of a quark which hits successive layers of matter of decreasing temperature, and we show that the resulting radiative energy loss can be as large as 6 times the corresponding one in a static plasma at the reference temperature $T=T(L)$, which is reached after the quark propagates a distance $L$.

Source: Physical Review C

DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.58.1706

Authors: R. Baier, Yu. L. Dokshitzer, A. H. Mueller, D. Schiff

Institutions: Bielefeld University, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Columbia University, Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies

Language: English

Topic: High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

OpenAlex ID: W2064443263

FWCI: 3.57

Cites: 13

Cited by: 233

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