19 research outputs found
Collective Excitations of Supersymmetric Plasma
Collective excitations of N = 1 supersymmetric electromagnetic plasma are
studied. Since the Keldysh-Schwinger approach is used, not only equilibrium but
also non-equilibrium plasma, which is assumed to be ultrarelativistic, is under
consideration. The dispersion equations of photon, photino, electron and
selectron modes are written down and the self-energies, which enter the
equations, are computed in the Hard Loop Approximation. The self-energies are
discussed in the context of effective action which is also given. The photon
modes and electron ones appear to be the same as in the usual ultrarelativistic
plasma of electrons, positrons and photons. The photino modes coincide with the
electron ones and the selectron modes are as of free relativistic massive
particle.Comment: 14 pages, typos corrected, Phys. Rev. D in prin
Transport of hard probes through glasma
We calculate the transverse momentum broadening and collisional
energy loss of hard probes traversing an evolving glasma during the
earliest phase of a relativistic heavy-ion collision. We use a Fokker-Planck
equation and apply a proper time expansion to describe the temporal evolution
of the glasma. The correlators of the chromodynamic fields that determine the
Fokker-Planck collision terms, which in turn provide and , are
computed to fifth order. Both transport coefficients are strongly dependent on
time. The maximum values they acquire before the proper time expansion breaks
down are large: is of the order of a few and . Their precise values depend on the probe's velocity , the saturation momentum , and an IR regulator that is related to
the confinement scale. We study the dependence of our results on these
quantities. Different regularization procedures are analysed and shown to
produce similar results. We also discuss the validity of the proper time
expansion and the compatibility of the approximations that are inherent in the
derivation of the Fokker-Planck equation. We show that hard probes lose a
comparable amount of energy when they propagate through the short-lived glasma
phase, and the long-lasting hydrodynamic phase. The conclusion is that the
glasma plays an important role in jet quenching.Comment: 41 pages, 18 figures, a few comments added, accepted for publication
in Phys. Rev.
The energy-momentum tensor at the earliest stage of relativistic heavy ion collisions -- formalism
Nuclear collisions at high energies produce a gluon field that can be
described using the Colour Glass Condensate (CGC) effective theory at proper
times fm/c. The theory can be used to calculate the gluon
energy-momentum tensor, which provides information about the early time
evolution of the chromo-electric and chromo-magnetic fields, energy density,
longitudinal and transverse pressures, and other quantities. We obtain an
analytic expression for the energy-momentum tensor using an expansion in the
proper time, and working to sixth order. The calculation is technically
difficult, in part because the number of terms involved grows rapidly with the
order of the expansion, but also because of several subtle issues
related to the definition of event-averaged correlators, the method chosen to
regulate these correlators, and the dependence of results on the parameters
introduced by the regularization and nuclear density profile functions. All of
these issues are crucially related to the important question of the extent to
which we expect a CGC approach to be able to accurately describe the early
stages of a heavy ion collision. We present some results for the evolution of
the energy density and the longitudinal and transverse pressures. We show that
our calculation gives physically meaningful results up to values of the proper
time which are close to the regime at which hydrodynamic simulations are
initialized. In a companion paper we will present a detailed analysis of
several other experimentally relevant quantities that can be calculated from
the energy-momentum tensor.Comment: 41 pages, 5 figure
DIS dijet production at next-to-eikonal accuracy in the CGC
In this work, we derive the cross-section for inclusive DIS dijet production
at full next-to-eikonal order. We include the corrections that stem from taking
a finite width of the target, the interaction of the quark with the transverse
component of the background field and also the dynamics of the target.Comment: Presented at the XXIX Cracow Epiphany Conference on Physics at the
Electron-Ion Collider and Future Facilities. To appear in Acta Physica
Polonica B Suppleme