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An effective theory for jet propagation in dense QCD matter: jet broadening and medium-induced bremsstrahlung
Two effects, jet broadening and gluon bremsstrahlung induced by the
propagation of a highly energetic quark in dense QCD matter, are reconsidered
from effective theory point of view. We modify the standard Soft Collinear
Effective Theory (SCET) Lagrangian to include Glauber modes, which are needed
to implement the interactions between the medium and the collinear fields. We
derive the Feynman rules for this Lagrangian and show that it is invariant
under soft and collinear gauge transformations. We find that the newly
constructed theory SCET recovers exactly the general result for the
transverse momentum broadening of jets. In the limit where the radiated gluons
are significantly less energetic than the parent quark, we obtain a jet
energy-loss kernel identical to the one discussed in the reaction operator
approach to parton propagation in matter. In the framework of SCET we
present results for the fully-differential bremsstrahlung spectrum for both the
incoherent and the Landau-Pomeranchunk-Migdal suppressed regimes beyond the
soft-gluon approximation. Gauge invariance of the physics results is
demonstrated explicitly by performing the calculations in both the light-cone
and covariant gauges. We also show how the process-dependent
medium-induced radiative corrections factorize from the jet production cross
section on the example of the quark jets considered here.Comment: 52 pages, 15 pdf figures, as published in JHE
Improved convergence of scattering calculations in the oscillator representation
The Schr\"odinger equation for two and tree-body problems is solved for
scattering states in a hybrid representation where solutions are expanded in
the eigenstates of the harmonic oscillator in the interaction region and on a
finite difference grid in the near-- and far--field. The two representations
are coupled through a high--order asymptotic formula that takes into account
the function values and the third derivative in the classical turning points.
For various examples the convergence is analyzed for various physics problems
that use an expansion in a large number of oscillator states. The results show
significant improvement over the JM-ECS method [Bidasyuk et al, Phys. Rev. C
82, 064603 (2010)]
Transport with three-particle interaction
Starting from a point - like two - and three - particle interaction the
kinetic equation is derived. While the drift term of the kinetic equation turns
out to be determined by the known Skyrme mean field the collision integral
appears in two - and three - particle parts. The cross section results from the
same microscopic footing and is naturally density dependent due to the three -
particle force. By this way no hybrid model for drift and cross section is
needed for nuclear transport. Besides the mean field correlation energy the
resulting equation of state has also a two - and three - particle correlation
energy which are both calculated analytically for the ground state. These
energies contribute to the equation of state and lead to an occurrence of a
maximum at 3 times nuclear density in the total energy.Comment: typos correction
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