Medium-induced jet evolution: multiple branching and thermalization
Edmond Iancu, Bin Wu
TL;DR
This paper presents a physical picture of jet quenching in a quark-gluon plasma, emphasizing the interplay between medium-induced branchings and elastic collisions leading to thermalization.
Contribution
It introduces a detailed description of jet evolution considering multiple branchings and thermalization processes in the plasma.
Findings
Jet quenching involves quasi-democratic branchings.
Elastic collisions facilitate thermalization of soft products.
A phase-space perspective elucidates jet-medium interactions.
Abstract
For an energetic jet propagating through a weakly-coupled quark-gluon plasma, we present the physical picture of jet quenching in longitudinal phase-space, as emerging from the interplay between the medium-induced, quasi-democratic, branchings and the elastic collisions responsible for the thermalization of the soft branching products.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research · Cosmology and Gravitation Theories · Black Holes and Theoretical Physics