53 research outputs found
Jet coherence in QCD media: the antenna radiation spectrum
We study the radiation of a highly energetic partonic antenna in a colored
state traversing a dense QCD medium. Resumming multiple scatterings of all
involved constituents with the medium we derive the general gluon spectrum
which encompasses both longitudinal color coherence between scattering centers
in the medium, responsible for the well known Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM)
effect, and transverse color coherence between partons inside a jet, leading,
in vacuum, to angular ordering of the parton shower. We discuss shortly the
onset of transverse decoherence which is reached in opaque media. In this
regime, the spectrum consists of independent radiation off the antenna
constituents.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figures, paper shortened and partly rewritten, references
added, results unchange
Two-Particle Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Two-particle momentum correlations between pairs of identical particles
produced in relativistic heavy-ion reactions can be analyzed to extract the
space-time structure of the collision fireball. We review recent progress in
the application of this method, based on newly developed theoretical tools and
new high-quality data from heavy-ion collision experiments. Implications for
our understanding of the collision dynamics and for the search for the
quark-gluon plasma are discussed.Comment: 44 pages, LaTeX, 11 Figures, uses special style files (included),
prepared for Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 49 (1999). Error in Chapt. 1
corrected and a few references adde
Gauge invariant definition of the jet quenching parameter
In the framework of Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, the jet quenching
parameter, , has been evaluated by adding the effect of Glauber gluon
interactions to the propagation of a highly-energetic collinear parton in a
medium. The result, which holds in covariant gauges, has been expressed in
terms of the expectation value of two Wilson lines stretching along the
direction of the four-momentum of the parton. In this paper, we show how that
expression can be generalized to an arbitrary gauge by the addition of
transverse Wilson lines. The transverse Wilson lines are explicitly computed by
resumming interactions of the parton with Glauber gluons that appear only in
non-covariant gauges. As an application of our result, we discuss the
contribution to coming from transverse momenta of order in a
medium that is a weakly-coupled quark-gluon plasma.Comment: 31 pages, 7 figures; journal versio
Colliding AdS gravitational shock waves in various dimensions and holography
The formation of marginally trapped surfaces in the off-center collision of
two shock waves on AdS_D (with D=4,5,6,7 and 8) is studied numerically. We
focus on the case when the two waves collide with nonvanishing impact parameter
while the sources are located at the same value of the holographic coordinate.
In all cases a critical value of the impact parameter is found above which no
trapped surface is formed. The numerical results show the existence of a simple
scaling relation between the critical impact parameter and the energy of the
colliding waves. Using the isometries of AdS_D we relate the solutions obtained
to the ones describing the collision of two waves with a purely holographic
impact parameter. This provides a gravitational dual for the head-on collision
of two lumps of energy of unequal size.Comment: 25 pages, 11 figures. v2: minor changes, typos corrected. To appear
in JHE
Pion Interferometry in Au+Au Collisions at the Ags
Two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations have been studied using the BNL-E866 Forward Spectrometer in 11.6 A {center_dot} GeV/c Au + Au collisions. The data were analyzed using three-dimensional correlation parameterizations to study transverse momentum-dependent source parameters. The freeze-out time and the duration of emission were derived from the source radii parameters
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