Parton energy loss and momentum broadening at NLO in high temperature QCD plasmas

DOI10.1142/9789814663717_0006zbMATH Open1338.81368arXiv1502.03730OpenAlexW4232321407MaRDI QIDQ2808201FDOQ2808201

Publication date: 20 May 2016

Published in: Quark–Gluon Plasma 5 (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 jet-particles and a non-abelian plasma, consisting of on-shell thermal excitations and soft gluonic fields. These interactions include 2<->2 scatterings, collinear bremsstrahlung, and drag and momentum diffusion. We show how the contribution from the soft gluonic fields can be factorized into a set of Wilson line correlators on the light cone. We review recent field-theoretical developments, rooted in the causal properties of these correlators, which simplify the calculation of the appropriate Wilson lines in thermal field theory. With these simplifications lattice measurements of transverse momentum broadening have become possible, and the kinetic equations describing parton transport have been extended to next-to-leading order in the coupling g.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03730

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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