Jet quenching parameter of the quark-gluon plasma in a strong magnetic field: Perturbative QCD and AdS / CFT correspondence
Jet quenching parameter of the quark-gluon plasma in a strong magnetic field: Perturbative QCD and AdS / CFT correspondence
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.94.085016
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发表时间:
2016-05
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5
通讯作者:
Shiyong Li;Kiminad A. Mamo;Ho-Ung Yee
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作者:
Shiyong Li;Kiminad A. Mamo;Ho-Ung Yee
We compute the jet quenching parameter $\stackrel{^}{q}$ of a quark-gluon plasma in the presence of a strong magnetic field using perturbative QCD (pQCD) in the weakly coupled regime, and $\mathrm{AdS}/\mathrm{CFT}$ correspondence in the strongly coupled regime of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills. In the weakly coupled regime, we compute $\stackrel{^}{q}$ in pQCD at complete leading order (that is, leading log as well as the constant under the log) in the QCD coupling constant ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}$, assuming the hierarchy of scales ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}eB\ensuremath{\ll}{T}^{2}\ensuremath{\ll}eB$. We consider two cases of jet orientations with respect to the magnetic field: 1) the case of a jet moving parallel to the magnetic field; 2) the case of a jet moving perpendicular to the magnetic field. In the former case, we find $\stackrel{^}{q}\ensuremath{\sim}{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}^{2}(eB)T\mathrm{log}(1/{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s})$, while in the latter we have $\stackrel{^}{q}\ensuremath{\sim}{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}^{2}(eB)T\mathrm{log}({T}^{2}/{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}eB)$. In both cases, this leading-order result arises from the scatterings with thermally populated lowest-Landau-level quarks. In the strongly coupled regime described by the $\mathrm{AdS}/\mathrm{CFT}$ correspondence, we find $\stackrel{^}{q}\ensuremath{\sim}\sqrt{\ensuremath{\lambda}}(eB)T$ or $\stackrel{^}{q}\ensuremath{\sim}\sqrt{\ensuremath{\lambda}}\sqrt{eB}{T}^{2}$ in the same hierarchy of ${T}^{2}\ensuremath{\ll}eB$ depending on whether the jet is moving parallel or perpendicular to the magnetic field, respectively, which indicates a universal dependence of $\stackrel{^}{q}$ on $(eB)T$ in both regimes for the parallel case, the origin of which should be the transverse density of lowest-Landau-level states proportional to $eB$. Finally, the asymmetric transverse momentum diffusion in the case of a jet moving perpendicular to the magnetic field may give an interesting azimuthal asymmetry of the gluon bremsstrahlung spectrum in the Baier-Dokshitzer-Mueller-Peigne-Schiff and Zakharov (BDMPS-Z) formalism.