Jet quenching versus jet enhancement: a quantitative study of the BDMPS-Z gluon radiation spectrum

By U. Wiedemann. 2000

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Abstract We study the gluon radiation spectrum off a hard in-medium produced quark in the multiple soft-rescattering formalism of Baier–Dokshitzer–Mueller–Peigne–Schiff and of Zakharov (BDMPS-Z). Its dependence on the quark and gluon energy, on the gluon transverse momentum, on the in-medium pathlength and on the rescattering properties of the nuclear medium is analyzed quantitatively. The two components of gluon radiation, the hard vacuum radiation associated to the quark production vertex, and the medium-induced rescattering contribution interfere destructively. For small spatial extensions of the medium, this destructive interference overcompensates the hard vacuum radiation, and the total medium-induced radiative energy loss decreases as ΔE∝− L 3 . Medium-induced gluon production dominates only above a finite critical length L>L crit which varies between 3 and more than 6 fm depending on the rescattering properties of the medium. Deviations from the BDMPS- L 2 -behaviour persist above L crit . The medium-dependence of the angular gluon distribution is dominated by transverse brownian k ⊥ -broadening. This results in a depletion of the low transverse momentum part of both the hard and the medium-induced contribution. As a consequence, the medium-induced energy loss outside a finite angular cone size Θ can be more than a factor two larger than the total medium-induced radiative energy loss. We discuss implications of these results for the jet quenching signal in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Quenching of hadron spectra in media (2001, background): “This argument applies both to the “canonical” ∆E [12, 13] and to the additional contribution to ∆E originating from emission of energetic gluons when there is only a single scattering in the medium, found in a series of recent papers initiated by Gyulassy, Lévai and Vitev [20]–[23].”
• Jet quenching in high-energy heavy-ion collisions (2015, methodology): “The opacity expansion was developed by Gyulassy, Levai and Vitev (GLV)40–42 and independently by Wiedemann.43,44 Such approach is based on a systematic expansion in terms of the number of scatterings experienced by the propagating parton.”
• Medium-induced gluon branching (2012, unknown): “Further developments are presented in [13–20].”