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Radiative Energy Loss of High Energy Partons Traversing an Expanding QCD Plasma

arXiv:hep-ph/9803473 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.58.1706

Abstract

We study analytically the medium-induced energy loss of a high energy parton passing through a finite size QCD plasma, which is expanding longitudinally according to Bjorken's model. We extend the BDMPS formalism already applied to static media to the case of a quark which hits successive layers of matter of decreasing temperature, and we show that the resulting radiative energy loss can be as large as 6 times the corresponding one in a static plasma at the reference temperature , which is reached after the quark propagates a distance .

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