https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2028-8
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Coherent radiative parton energy loss beyond the BDMPS-Z limit
1
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
2
Department of Physics, CERN, Theory Unit, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
* e-mail: k.c.zapp@durham.ac.uk
Received:
15
February
2012
Revised:
11
May
2012
Published online:
1
June
2012
It is widely accepted that a phenomenologically viable theory of jet quenching for heavy ion collisions requires the understanding of medium-induced parton energy loss beyond the limit of eikonal kinematics formulated by Baier–Dokshitzer–Mueller–Peigné–Schiff and Zakharov (BDMPS-Z). Here, we supplement a recently developed exact Monte Carlo implementation of the BDMPS-Z formalism with elementary physical requirements including exact energy-momentum conservation, a refined formulation of jet-medium interactions and a treatment of all parton branchings on the same footing. We document the changes induced by these physical requirements and we describe their kinematic origin.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2012
