arXiv · nucl-th/9306003
Multiple Collisions and Induced Gluon Bremsstrahlung in QCD
Abstract
Induced soft gluon bremsstrahlung associated with multiple collisions is calculated via perturbative QCD. We derive the non-abelian analog of the Landau-Pomeranchuk effect that suppresses induced soft radiation with formation times exceeding the mean free path, $λ$. The dependence of the suppression effect on the $SU(N)$ representation of the jet parton as well as the kinematic variables is expressed through a radiation formation factor. Unlike in QED, the finite contribution from the small $x$ regime in QCD leads to an approximately constant radiative energy loss per unit length, $dE/dz\propto μ^2$, in the high energy limit that is sensitive to the infrared screening scale, $μ$, of the medium. As a function of the dimensionless parameter $ζ=λμ^2/E$, we show furthermore how the energy dependence of $dE/dz$ evolves from the above constant for $ζ\ll 1$ to the more familiar (Bethe-Heitler) linear dependence for $ζ\gg 1$.
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Mikols Gyulassy, Xin-Nian Wang. 1993-06-02. Multiple Collisions and Induced Gluon Bremsstrahlung in QCD. https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(94)90079-5
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