Scattering and gluon emission of physical quarks in a SU(3) colored field

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Main Authors: Li, Meijian, Lappi, Tuomas, Zhao, Xingbo, Salgado, Carlos A.
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Published: 2025
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author Li, Meijian
Lappi, Tuomas
Zhao, Xingbo
Salgado, Carlos A.
author_facet Li, Meijian
Lappi, Tuomas
Zhao, Xingbo
Salgado, Carlos A.
contents We study the scattering of the gluon-dressed physical quarks, defined as the eigenstates of the vacuum QCD Hamiltonian, off a colored medium. We solve the wavefunction of the physical quark state by diagonalizing the QCD Hamiltonian in vacuum in a $\ket{q}+\ket{qg}$ Fock space, with implementing the sector-dependent mass renormalization scheme. We then perform numerical simulations of the real-time quantum state evolution of the initially dressed quark state at various medium densities. The results are compared with those of an initially bare or off-shell quark states. With the obtained light-front wavefunction of the evolved state, we extract the quark jet transverse momentum broadening, the quenching parameter, the cross section, the gluon emission rate, and the evolution of the invariant mass. The scenario considered is relevant for high energy scattering processes, where the quark originates from far outside the color field describing the scattering target. This investigation on dressed quarks complements our earlier studies of the single quark scattering in the $\ket{q}$ Fock space, and of the bare quark scattering in the $\ket{q}+\ket{qg}$ Fock space, providing a novel systematic description of quark scattering process using a non-perturbative formalism.
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spellingShingle Scattering and gluon emission of physical quarks in a SU(3) colored field
Li, Meijian
Lappi, Tuomas
Zhao, Xingbo
Salgado, Carlos A.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
We study the scattering of the gluon-dressed physical quarks, defined as the eigenstates of the vacuum QCD Hamiltonian, off a colored medium. We solve the wavefunction of the physical quark state by diagonalizing the QCD Hamiltonian in vacuum in a $\ket{q}+\ket{qg}$ Fock space, with implementing the sector-dependent mass renormalization scheme. We then perform numerical simulations of the real-time quantum state evolution of the initially dressed quark state at various medium densities. The results are compared with those of an initially bare or off-shell quark states. With the obtained light-front wavefunction of the evolved state, we extract the quark jet transverse momentum broadening, the quenching parameter, the cross section, the gluon emission rate, and the evolution of the invariant mass. The scenario considered is relevant for high energy scattering processes, where the quark originates from far outside the color field describing the scattering target. This investigation on dressed quarks complements our earlier studies of the single quark scattering in the $\ket{q}$ Fock space, and of the bare quark scattering in the $\ket{q}+\ket{qg}$ Fock space, providing a novel systematic description of quark scattering process using a non-perturbative formalism.
title Scattering and gluon emission of physical quarks in a SU(3) colored field
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07162