Korinna Zapp
Senior lecturer
Jet quenching from soft QCD scattering in the quark-gluon plasma
Author
Summary, in English
We show that partons traversing a quark-gluon plasma can lose substantial amounts of energy also by scatterings, and not only through medium-induced radiation as mainly considered previously. Results from Monte Carlo simulations of soft interactions of partons, emerging from a hard scattering, through multiple elastic scatterings on gluons in an expanding relativistic plasma show a sizeable jet quenching which can account for a substantial part of the effect observed in RHIC data.
Publishing year
2006-06-08
Language
English
Pages
179-184
Publication/Series
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume
637
Issue
3
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- Jet quenching
- QCD
- Quark-gluon plasma
- Scattering
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0370-2693