Jet quenching from soft QCD scattering in the quark-gluon plasma

Korinna Zapp, Gunnar Ingelman, Johan Rathsman, Johanna Stachel

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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.

Originalspråkengelska
Sidor (från-till)179-184
Antal sidor6
TidskriftPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volym637
Nummer3
DOI
StatusPublished - 2006 juni 8
Externt publiceradJa

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