Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics
8. Hard Scattering, Jets and Jet Quenching
Prof. Dr. Klaus Reygers Heidelberg University SS 2017 Theoretical description of High-pT particle production: Perturbative QCD
■ Scattering of pointlike partons described by QCD perturbation theory (pQCD) ■ Soft processes described by universal, phenomenological functions ‣ Parton distribution function from deep inelastic scattering ‣ Fragmentation functions from e+e- collisions ■ Particle production dominated by hard scattering for pT ≳ 3 GeV/c ‣ However, 99% or so of all particle from soft processes
QGP physics SS2017 | K. Reygers | 8. Hard Scattering, Jets and Jet Quenching 2 Jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions
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A-A collision: shower evolution in the medium, energy loss of the leading parton
QGP physics SS2017 | K. Reygers | 8. Hard Scattering, Jets and Jet Quenching 3 Jet quenching history
It is now believed that radiative energy loss (gluon bremsstrahlung) is more important than elastic scattering
QGP physics SS2017 | K. Reygers | 8. Hard Scattering, Jets and Jet Quenching 4 Collisional vs. radiative parton energy loss
Collisional energy loss: Radiative energy loss:
■ Elastic scatterings with medium ■ Inelastic scatterings within the constituents medium ■ Dominates at low parton momenta ■ Dominates at higher momenta
QGP physics SS2017 | K. Reygers | 8. Hard Scattering, Jets and Jet Quenching 5 Analogy: Energy loss of charged particles in ordinary matter http://pdg.lbl.gov /g] 2 µ+ on Cu 100 µ−
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E Radiative E d effects µc ⟨ 10 reach 1% Scharff Radiative Lindhard- Minimum losses ionization Nuclear losses Without δ Mass stopping power [MeV cm 1 4 5 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1000 10 10 βγ
0.1 1 10 100 1 10 100 1 10 100 [MeV/c] [GeV/c] [TeV/c] Muon momentum μ+ on Cu: Radiational energy loss ("bremsstrahlung") starts to dominate over collisional energy loss ("Bethe-Bloch") for p ≫ 100 GeV/c QGP physics SS2017 | K. Reygers | 8. Hard Scattering, Jets and Jet Quenching 6 Basics of radiative parton energy loss (1)
■ Energy loss E in a static medium of length L for a parton energy E → ∞:
2 2 µ 3 for gluon jets E ↵s CF qLˆ qˆ = CF = / (4/3 for quark jets µ2 : typical momentum transfer from medium to parton per collision