Tuesday, April 3, 2012

1111.6838 (Korinna C. Zapp et al.)

Explaining jet quenching with perturbative QCD alone    [PDF]

Korinna C. Zapp, Frank Krauss, Urs A. Wiedemann
We present a new formulation of jet quenching in perturbative QCD beyond the eikonal approximation. Multiple scattering in the medium is modelled through infra-red-continued (2 -> 2) scattering matrix elements in QCD and the parton shower describing further emissions. The interplay between these processes is arranged in terms of a formation time constraint such that coherent emissions can be treated consistently. Emerging partons are hadronised by the Lund string model, tuned to describe LEP data in conjunction with the parton shower. Based on this picture we obtain a good description of the nuclear modification factor R_AA at RHIC and LHC.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6838

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