Speaker
Description
The evolution of jets in the quark gluon plasma can be described in terms of an effective kinetic description. In the small scattering angle limit and neglecting inelastic processes, this gives place to a Boltzmann-diffusion equation ruling the phase space distribution of the jet. In this talk, we will discuss how such a picture generalizes to evolution in non-homogenous media. We will derive an all order gradient transport equation, which extends the classical diffusion result. Already at second order in matter gradients, we observe that the resulting transport law incorporates quantum corrections to the Boltzmann evolution law. We will also discuss how such effects give rise to power corrections to the jet quenching parameter, recently observed in non-perturbative calculations. Further applications of the novel transport equations are discussed in a phenomenological context.
| What kind of work does this abstract pertain to? | Theoretical |
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| Which experiment is this abstract related to? | Other |
