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Towards a spacetime description of hard parton evolution in the quark gluon plasma
Typical energy loss calcuations in AdS/CFT simulations use an initial condition of off-shell pairs of quarks placed back-to-back in the QGP, but a precise and theoretically motivated description of configuration does not exist. Quark virtuality can have noticeable effects on the rate of energy loss...
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| author | Meiring, Benjamin Wallace |
| author2 | Horowitz, William |
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| description | Typical energy loss calcuations in AdS/CFT simulations use an initial condition of off-shell pairs of quarks placed back-to-back in the QGP, but a precise and theoretically motivated description of configuration does not exist. Quark virtuality can have noticeable effects on the rate of energy loss so a first principles calculation is needed for the early time behaviour of virtual particles soon after production. We use the Schwinger Keldysh formalism to calculate a perturbative expression for the Energy Momentum Tensor of hard partons created before the formation of the Quark Gluon Plasma. We propose this as a foundational model to use as an initial condition in jet energy loss calculations. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/20007 Towards a spacetime description of hard parton evolution in the quark gluon plasma Meiring, Benjamin Wallace Horowitz, William Theoretical Physics Typical energy loss calcuations in AdS/CFT simulations use an initial condition of off-shell pairs of quarks placed back-to-back in the QGP, but a precise and theoretically motivated description of configuration does not exist. Quark virtuality can have noticeable effects on the rate of energy loss so a first principles calculation is needed for the early time behaviour of virtual particles soon after production. We use the Schwinger Keldysh formalism to calculate a perturbative expression for the Energy Momentum Tensor of hard partons created before the formation of the Quark Gluon Plasma. We propose this as a foundational model to use as an initial condition in jet energy loss calculations. 2016-06-10T07:40:47Z 2016-06-10T07:40:47Z 2015 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20007 eng application/pdf Department of Physics Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Theoretical Physics Meiring, Benjamin Wallace Towards a spacetime description of hard parton evolution in the quark gluon plasma |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Towards a spacetime description of hard parton evolution in the quark gluon plasma |
| title_full | Towards a spacetime description of hard parton evolution in the quark gluon plasma |
| title_fullStr | Towards a spacetime description of hard parton evolution in the quark gluon plasma |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a spacetime description of hard parton evolution in the quark gluon plasma |
| title_short | Towards a spacetime description of hard parton evolution in the quark gluon plasma |
| title_sort | towards a spacetime description of hard parton evolution in the quark gluon plasma |
| topic | Theoretical Physics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20007 |
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