Published January 16, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Jets in QCD media: From color coherence to decoherence

  • 1. Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Galicia (Spain)
  • 2. Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund (Sweden)

Description

We investigate soft gluon radiation off a quark-antiquark antenna in both color singlet and octet configurations traversing a dense medium. We demonstrate that, in both cases, multiple scatterings lead to a gradual decoherence of the antenna radiation as a function of the medium density. In particular, in the limit of a completely opaque medium, total decoherence is obtained, i.e., the quark and the antiquark radiate as independent emitters in vacuum, thus losing memory of their origin.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.042

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.042;
arXiv
arXiv:1102.4317v1;
PII
S0370-2693(11)01499-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
707
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 156-159
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.