Jet broadening and radiation in the early anisotropic plasma in heavy-ion collisions

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Autores principales: Altenburger, Alois, Boguslavski, Kirill, Lindenbauer, Florian
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Publicado: 2025
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author Altenburger, Alois
Boguslavski, Kirill
Lindenbauer, Florian
author_facet Altenburger, Alois
Boguslavski, Kirill
Lindenbauer, Florian
contents Measuring the energy loss of energetic jet partons may provide experimental opportunities to constrain the initial nonequilibrium stages in heavy-ion collisions, which requires theoretical predictions for the jet-medium potential. In this letter, we go beyond the usual harmonic approximation, extract this potential for the first time using QCD kinetic theory simulations, and provide a simple cutoff-independent small-distance form. We find significant differences to thermal media at early times in momentum and position space, as well as substantial angular dependence. Applying our results to the gluon splitting rates using a novel computational method reveals tensions in the current kinetic theory implementations for early times.
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spellingShingle Jet broadening and radiation in the early anisotropic plasma in heavy-ion collisions
Altenburger, Alois
Boguslavski, Kirill
Lindenbauer, Florian
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Measuring the energy loss of energetic jet partons may provide experimental opportunities to constrain the initial nonequilibrium stages in heavy-ion collisions, which requires theoretical predictions for the jet-medium potential. In this letter, we go beyond the usual harmonic approximation, extract this potential for the first time using QCD kinetic theory simulations, and provide a simple cutoff-independent small-distance form. We find significant differences to thermal media at early times in momentum and position space, as well as substantial angular dependence. Applying our results to the gluon splitting rates using a novel computational method reveals tensions in the current kinetic theory implementations for early times.
title Jet broadening and radiation in the early anisotropic plasma in heavy-ion collisions
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03868