LPM-Effect in Monte Carlo Models of Radiative Energy Loss

Summary, in English

Extending the use of Monte Carlo (MC) event generators to jets in nuclear collisions requires a probabilistic implementation of the non-abelian LPM effect. We demonstrate that a local, probabilistic MC implementation based on the concept of formation times can account fully for the LPM-effect. The main features of the analytically known eikonal and collinear approximation can be reproduced, but we show how going beyond this approximation can lead to qualitatively different results.

• Author: Korinna C. Zapp; Johanna Stachel; Urs Achim Wiedemann
• Publishing year: 2009-11-01
• Language: English
• Pages: 171-174
• Publication/Series: Nuclear Physics A
• Volume: 830
• Issue: 1-4
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.10.091
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0375-9474