Soudi, Ismail: Energy loss and equilibration of a highly energetic parton in QCD plasmas. 2021
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Primer on heavy-ion collisions
- Effective kinetic theory of QCD
- General framework
- Elastic collision integral
- Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect in QCD
- Collinear radiation
- Wave turbulence
- Longitudinal energy loss
- Kinetic description
- Energy loss and equilibration
- Early stages of the evolution
- Successive splittings & evolution at intermediate scales
- Evolution towards equilibrium
- Discussion
- Out-of-cone energy loss
- Non-perturbative in-medium splitting rates
- Collisional broadening kernel
- Infinite medium splitting rates
- Finite medium splitting rates
- Broadening kernel in momentum space
- Full rate calculation
- Opacity expansion
- Resummed opacity expansion
- Improved harmonic oscillator approximation
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Derivation of the small-angle approximation
- Phase-space parametrization
- Expansion of statistical terms
- Evaluation of small angle matrix elements
- Collision integrals in small angle approximation
- Angular dependent case
- Numerical implementation of the Boltzmann equation
- Basic formalism
- Discretization of small angle elastic collision integrals
- Discretization of inelastic collision integrals
- Discretization of the angular cascade
- Bethe-Heitler regime at infinite medium
- Finite medium splitting rate calculation
- Bibliography