https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8324-9
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Heavy quark energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma in the Moller theory
Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
* e-mail: blok@physics.technion.ac.il
Received:
29
February
2020
Accepted:
29
July
2020
Published online:
12
August
2020
We study the energy loss of a heavy quark propagating in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in the framework of the Moller theory, including possible large Coulomb logarithms as a perturbation to BDMPSZ bremsstrahlung, described in the harmonic oscillator (HO) approximation. We derive the analytical expression that describes the energy loss in the entire emitted gluon frequency region. In the small frequencies region, for angles larger than the dead cone angle, the energy loss is controlled by the BDMPSZ mechanism, while for larger frequencies it is described by N = 1 term in the GLV opacity expansion. We estimate corresponding quenching rates for different values of the heavy quark path length and different m/E ratios.
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