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Description
It is well known that the multiple interactions of a hard probe with the dense quark-gluon plasma results in the ”medium-induced” radiation of soft gluon, responsible e.g. for jet energy loss. Such an emission is computed using the BDMPS-Z formalism which has since been generalised to include multiple medium induced emissions. To get a complete picture of the evolution of a jet in a dense medium, the main missing ingredient is the inclusion of both medium-induced emissions and ”vacuum-like” emissions responsible for the parton shower from large virtualities (of the order of the hard scale) down to the hadronisation scale.
In this talk, we adopt a new approach and show that in a (leading) double logarithmic approximation, the time scales in the evolution of a jet factorise. The vacuum-like parton cascades develop at early times and exhibit angular ordering due to color coherence, like the standard parton showers in the vacuum. The effect of the medium can be simply formulated as a kinematic constraint which limits the phase-space for vacuum-like radiation and thus reduces the parton multiplicities. The gluons produced by these cascades lose their mutual coherence via multiple scattering and thus act as independent sources of energy loss via medium-induced radiation.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first complete picture of jet evolution in the medium derived from perturbative QCD. It has the additional advantage of being well-suited for a Monte Carlo implementation. In the talk, we show how this simple evolution arise and investigate its main properties.
