Jet broadening in unstable non-Abelian plasmas

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dc.creatorDumitru, Adrian
dc.creatorNara, Yasushi
dc.creatorSchenke, Bjoern
dc.creatorStrickland, Michael
dc.date2007-10-05
dc.date2008-10-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:53:25Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:53:25Z
dc.descriptionWe perform numerical simulations of the QCD Boltzmann-Vlasov equation including both hard elastic particle collisions and soft interactions mediated by classical Yang-Mills fields. We provide an estimate of the coupling of jets to a hot plasma which is independent of infrared cutoffs. For weakly-coupled anisotropic plasmas the local rotational symmetry in momentum space is broken. The fields develop unstable modes, forming configurations where B_t>E_t and E_z>B_z. This provides a possible explanation for the experimental observation that high-energy jets traversing the plasma perpendicular to the beam axis experience much stronger broadening in rapidity than in azimuth.
dc.description6 pages, 7 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.C, typos fixed, more detailed discussion of q-hat
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1223
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1223
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.C78:024909,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevC.78.024909
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/204528
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleJet broadening in unstable non-Abelian plasmas
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