Advancing QCD-based calculations of energy loss

# Advancing QCD-based calculations of energy loss

Konrad Tywoniuk Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 14A, SE-22 362 Lund, Sweden
###### Abstract

We give a brief overview of the basics and current developments of QCD-based calculations of radiative processes in medium. We put an emphasis on the underlying physics concepts and discuss the theoretical uncertainties inherently associated with the fundamental parameters to be extracted from data. An important area of development is the study of the single-gluon emission in medium. Moreover, establishing the correct physical picture of multi-gluon emissions is imperative for comparison with data. We will report on progress made in both directions and discuss perspectives for the future.

###### keywords:
hard probes, relativistic heavy-ion collisions, jet quenching, jet calculus, parton energy loss
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## 1 Introduction

The role of hard probes in heavy-ion collisions is twofold. Firstly, their creation involves short timescales, ( being the transverse momentum), where plasma effects are negligible and, in case of electromagnetic probes which do not suffer further interactions, they can therefore serve as baselines for quantifying medium effects. For QCD probes, the second reason is that they are expected to hadronize at very large distances, . For analogous processes in the vacuum, this leaves a large window where the fragmentation process can be described purely in terms of perturbative QCD (pQCD), see e.g. Dokshitzer:1991wu (). The situation becomes much more complex in the presence of a medium, it being cold nuclear matter or a hot and dense plasma created in the aftermath of a heavy-ion collision. It involves additional screening and rescattering effects which, as experiments clearly show, modify the final-state hadron production quite significantly. Throughout, due to the strong separation of a typical large jet energy and a typical medium scale we will assume that these effects can be modeled within pQCD as well.

The purpose of this brief overview is not to provide a fully comprehensive account of the present status of the theory and phenomenology of jet quenching – for that we refer the reader to recent reviews CasalderreySolana:2007zz (); Majumder:2010qh () and references therein – but rather to elucidate the basic concepts underlying our understanding of radiative processes in the medium. Along the way, we report on attempts toward higher precision or improved rigor in the understanding of several aspects of the process. Attempts to quantify the differences between specific model implementations, which reflect a certain level of theoretical uncertainty, were already presented Armesto:2011ht (). Although most of the implementations agree on a qualitative level, the uncertainties presently complicate any quantitative statements about medium properties using hard probes. It is nevertheless encouraging to note the progress made along several directions which was reported at this conference.

At the outset, let us clarify the “canonical” assumptions on the kinematics involved in the scattering and emission processes which, for our purpose, will set the stage for further discussion. Consider a projectile with energy emitting a secondary gluon with energy and transverse momentum and , respectively. Interactions with the medium are purely transverse, given by . Usually one assumes the following hierarchy of scales

 E≫ω≫k⊥∼q⊥. (1)

Starting from the left, the two first inequalities are the so-called eikonal (soft) and collinear approximations, respectively, rendering the emission a purely semi-classical phenomenon. As will be discussed below, relaxing these in a well-controlled manner is a serious theoretical challenge but, at least for the former of the two, interpolating formulas are well-known. Going beyond the collinear approximation, on the other hand, is more delicate, see Sec. 2.3 for further discussion. Finally, attempts to describe a more realistic medium interaction are also maturing, see Sec. 2.2.

## 2 The single-gluon inclusive spectrum in medium

Consider the propagation of a nascent, highly energetic parton through the medium. In this case, we have to treat bremsstrahlung and medium-induced gluon emissions on equal footing. Both of these components are contained in the rate111For a closely related approach, see also Guo:2000nz (); Wang:2001ifa (); Majumder:2009ge ().

 R =2Re∫∞0dt′∫t′0dt∫d2zexp[−ik⋅z−12∫∞t′dξn(ξ)σ(z)]∂y⋅∂zK(t′,z;t,y|ω)∣∣y=0, (2)

where is the medium density and

 K(t′,z;t,y|ω)=∫D[r]exp{∫t′tdξ[iω2˙r2(ξ)−12n(ξ)σ(r)]}, (3)

which is obtained by resumming multiple interactions with the medium Baier:1996kr (); Baier:1996sk (); Baier:1998kq (); Zakharov:1996fv (); Zakharov:1997uu (); Wiedemann:2000za ().222A regularization prescription is needed to obtain the correct bremsstrahlung contribution Wiedemann:2000za (). The integration variable in (3) can be interpreted as the transverse size of the projectile-gluon fluctuation. The rate (2) is related to the spectrum of emitted gluons, see first term in (12), where is the appropriate color factor.333 for the emission off a quark and off a gluon, where is the number of colors. Due to the assumed strong separation of scales (1), this spectrum does not account for the energy degradation of the particles along their trajectories. The medium-interactions are encoded in the (dimensionless) cross section

 σ(r)=∫d2q(2π)2V2(q)[1−cos(r⋅q)], (4)

where is closely related to the elastic scattering rate, see Sec. 2.2 for details. The spectrum can be solved analytically444For a numerical solution, interpolating between the two approximative schemes, see CaronHuot:2010bp (). by expanding up to fixed (th) order in medium opacity – the so-called ‘opacity expansion’ Gyulassy:2000fs (); Gyulassy:2000er (); Wiedemann:2000za () – or by noting that for small arguments of the cosine in (4) we can expand and write

 n(t)σ(r)≈12^q(t)r2, (5)

The latter procedure is referred to as the ‘harmonic oscillator’ approximation and is only strictly valid for multiple soft scatterings, breaking down when the projectile becomes sensitive to isolated scattering centers. The transport coefficient , appearing in (5), is further discussed in Sec. 2.2.

Before considering the medium-induced radiation, let us comment on the virtuality-driven bremsstrahlung component. In the absence of a medium, it is simply given by

 R∣∣brems=4ω2k2, (6)

and, as a rule, subtracted from the total spectrum to obtain a purely medium-induced quantity. In the presence of a medium, however, this contribution is in reality built up from both early- and late-time emissions MehtarTani:2012cy (). Thus, a careful treatment of this component is imperative for understanding the jets produced in heavy-ion collisions at LHC energies, see also Muller:2012hr () in these proceedings.

### 2.1 Decoherence of radiation via the LPM mechanism

The typical dipole size that governs the cross section in the exponent of (4) is given by the characteristic size of the transverse medium fluctuation, which again is related to the screening length of the medium .555Inversely, denotes a typical transverse momentum exchanged with the medium. In a dense medium, when the formation time of the gluon is large compared to the screening length, , the typical transverse momentum accumulated via coherent interaction with the medium is , see e.g. MehtarTani:2012cy (). The formation time of this induced gluon reads , and differs from the formation time in vacuum, which goes like and is typically long for soft gluons at a fixed angle . In contrast, soft gluons are induced quite rapidly in the medium. It follows that the typical gluon fluctuation acquires a size , where we have used that , as could be directly anticipated. In this way the relevant gluon fluctuation mirrors the local medium characteristics. It follows that the radiated gluon completely decoheres from the projectile at times .

In a medium of longitudinal extension and constant ,666Solutions for a wide class of expanding media are also analytically availble Baier:1998yf (); Arnold:2008iy (), see also Salgado:2002cd (); Salgado:2003gb () for a general scaling law. the dominant contribution to (2) arises when . In the ‘harmonic oscillator’ approximation the purely medium-induced rate can then be written as MehtarTani:2012cy ()

 R∣∣med-induced≈4ω∫L0dt′∫d2k′(2π)2P(k−k′,L−t′)sin⎛⎝k′22k2f⎞⎠e−k′22k2f. (7)

It describes two stages: initially a (quantum) emission process of a gluon with transverse momentum strongly peaked around , cf. two latter components (see also CaronHuot:2010bp ()), convoluted with the probability

 P(k,ξ)≡4π^qξexp[−k2^qξ], (8)

describing the subsequent classical transverse momentum broadening of the gluon along the remaining path-length. This factor introduces the largest momentum scale of the problem, which we denote by . After integrating out the transverse momentum in (7), we find the leading contribution to the medium-induced gluon energy spectrum

 ωdNdω∣∣med-induced≃αsCRπLtf=αsCRπ√^qL2ω. (9)

Thus, gluons with short formation times, , can be produced anywhere along the medium length. In the opposite case, , the estimate of (9) breaks down and the spectrum is strongly suppressed. This is the so-called Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) suppression in QCD.

In contrast to bremsstrahlung in vacuum (6), the induced spectrum (7) is collinear safe and favors the emission of relatively soft gluons at very large angles via the broadening mechanism. This aspect challenges the use of the collinear approximation throughout and is a source of significant theoretical uncertainty Armesto:2011ht ().

### 2.2 Modeling the medium

In the setup described above the input from an underlying theory of the plasma only enters as a two-point function of the medium gauge field. In the mixed representation

 ⟨Aamed(t,q)A∗bmed(t′,q′)⟩=δabn(t)δ(t−t′)(2π)2δ(2)(q−q′)V2(q), (10)

where, in two simple cases, the squared potential is given by

 V2(q)=⎧⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪⎨⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪⎩m2D(q2+m2D)2static' % scattering centers,m2Dq2(q2+m2D)dynamical' scattering centers. (11)

The first model describes scattering off randomly distributed static, Yukawa potentials screened by a Debye mass . It is often referred to as the Gyulassy-Wang model of the medium Gyulassy:1993hr (). The second option describes an elastic interaction with medium quasi-particles in the HTL approximation of thermal QCD Aurenche:2002pd () where the screening mass is given by , being the coupling and the temperature.777In a thermal medium one also needs to take into account several subtle effects, e.g. such as an in-medium gluon mass. In both cases the integral in (4) is logarithmically divergent in the UV and one needs to introduce a cut-off – another source of theoretical uncertainty Armesto:2011ht (). This form naturally appears for the derivation of (2) in thermal QCD Arnold:2001ba (); Arnold:2001ms (); Arnold:2002ja () and has also explicitly been calculated for the opacity case in Djordjevic:2007at (); Djordjevic:2009cr (). One has also included finite chemical potential in the calculation Gervais:2012wd (). Going beyond the HTL approximation, the authors of Djordjevic:2011dd () have also included a non-zero magnetic screening mass which is treated as a free parameter in their approach. The authors of Bluhm:2011sw (); Bluhm:2012kp () have studied the effects of introducing a heuristic long-distance timescale of absorption which would affect the induction of hard gluons. Finally, we mention that the correlator can also be found using strong-coupling techniques, see e.g. Liu:2006he ().

Generally, the medium characteristics are encoded in the parameter which represents the average transverse momentum broadening per unit length. It is known to leading order in QCD, see e.g. Arnold:2008vd (), but is usually treated as a phenomenological parameter to be extracted from data, see e.g. Armesto:2009zi (). Large next-to-leading corrections to this parameter was found in CaronHuot:2008ni (). Another higher-order effect is to account for the recoil of real or virtual gluon emissions Wu:2011kc (). Recently, there has been attempts to calculate it on the lattice Majumder:2012sh (). Ultimately, projectiles with lower longitudinal energy also become sensitive to medium drag effects Qin:2012cz () which become an additional source of energy loss.

### 2.3 Further improvements on kinematics

Above, the eikonal approximation, , has been employed, see (1). In general, going beyond this picture implies taking care of underlying complications arising essentially from the uncertainty relation, see e.g. MehtarTani:2012hp (). Neglecting these subtleties, an interpolating formulation for all gluon energies up to is well-known in the literature for the rate in (2), see e.g. Zakharov:1997uu (); Apolinario:2012vy ().

As mentioned before, the inherent tendency toward large-angle emissions, , of the medium-induced single-gluon spectrum seriously questions the assumed small-angle approximation used for its derivation (1). This poses a serious problem which can be considered Ovanesyan:2011xy (); Ovanesyan:2011kn () within the so-called Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) augmented with new transverse soft degrees of freedom, so-called Glauber gluons which mimic the plasma interactions. For more details, see Idilbi:2008vm (); DEramo:2010ak () and references therein. So far, sizable corrections has been reported for hard gluon emissions Ovanesyan:2011kn (). One the side, we note that the form of (7) suggests a separate treatment of the emission and broadening processes, also argued for in CasalderreySolana:2011rq (). A thorough analysis of these aspects could hopefully aid in reducing theoretical uncertainties and shed light on the space-time picture of the cascade.

## 3 Interferences in medium

So far we have only discussed the emission process taking place off a single charge propagating through the medium. However, at a given point during the jet cascading one would naturally expect the presence of many emitting charges, read jet fragments, which could give rise to interference effects. The simplest system which contains these interferences is the gluon radiation off two color charges and , separated by an opening angle , originating from the decay of a virtual particle with color charge .888E.g. for the process , the squared charges are simply and . The spectrum of the final gluon is called the ‘antenna spectrum’ in the literature Dokshitzer:1991wu () and consists of direct emissions, described by the rate as considered in the previous section, and of interferences, denoted by , see Fig. 1. The spectrum reads then

 ωdNd3k =αs(2π)2ω2[Q2bRb+Q2cRc+2Qb⋅QcJ], (12) (13)

due to color conservation . The last two terms in (13) are the so-called coherent spectra off charges and , respectively. The first term, on the other hand, describes emissions off the total charge and is a manifestation of color conservation and coherence. Compared to our previous analysis, the novel term is contained in the interferences, which in the presence of a medium read MehtarTani:2011jw (); CasalderreySolana:2011rz ()

 J =Re∫∞0dt′∫t′0dt[1−Δmed(t)]∫d2zexp[−iκ⋅z−12∫∞t′dξn(ξ)σ(z)+iδk22ωt] ×(∂y−iδk)⋅∂zK(t′,z;t,y|ω)∣∣y=δnt+sym., (14)

where is related to the opening angle of the antenna.999The antenna spectrum has also been calculated for massive quarks in Armesto:2011ir (). The main novel component is the so-called decoherence parameter, which in the ‘harmonic oscillator’ approximation discussed above reads

 1−Δmed(t)=e−^qt(θbct)2, (15)

where is the transverse size of the antenna prior to emission. The argument of the exponent defines a characteristic timescale of decoherence of the antenna system , given by . It is equivalent to the formation time for induced gluons, , in the sense that for the antenna legs decohere and behave as independent objects, i.e. .

The behavior of the system is governed by the hardest scale of the system, which is one of the following three characteristic scales MehtarTani:2011gf (); MehtarTani:2012cy ()

 Qhard=max(Qs,r−1⊥,ω|δn|), (16)

which determines the largest transverse momentum that can be generated by the system (here is the maximal antenna size). Thus, in the general case we expect the spectrum to be suppressed for . Starting with the latter, this is the scale that governs angular ordering in vacuum, i.e. when the coherent spectrum is suppressed at angles , see also Beraudo:2012hs (). The two former scales arise exclusively in the case of a medium (let us presently assume that both are much larger than ). Their relationship defines two distinct regimes, the “dipole” and “decoherence” regimes, respectively, which can be recast geometrically, illustrated in Fig. 2.

In the “dipole” regime the antenna remains in a coherent state, , and radiates accordingly, i.e. the medium-induced independent spectra are cancelled. A novel bremsstrahlung component, proportional to , arises between the opening angle and the maximal angle MehtarTani:2010ma (); MehtarTani:2011gf (); MehtarTani:2012cy (). In the “decoherence” regime, on the other hand, the antenna constituents rapidly decohere and radiate almost completely independently, see also CasalderreySolana:2011rz (). Above the maximal angle, in this case , both the medium-induced and the bremsstrahlung components drop rapidly marking the onset of coherence. For more details, see MehtarTani:2011gf (); MehtarTani:2012cy ().

Note that in the soft sector the maximal angle is arbitrary large. The behavior becomes universal and gives rise to a very simple coherent spectrum, namely MehtarTani:2010ma (); MehtarTani:2011tz ()

 dN∣∣soft, coh=αsCRπdωωsinθ dθ1−cosθ[Θ(cosθ−cosθq¯q)+ΔmedΘ(cosθq¯q−cosθ)]. (17)

We observe that a novel, infrared divergent component, which is absent from the independent spectrum (7), is found in the case of two emitters. Thus, for soft gluons in dense media, , all charges radiate independently (also the radiation off the total charge cancels out) due to the strong screening of the medium MehtarTani:2011tz (). The aspects discussed here will hopefully allow for a more rigorous derivation of multi-gluon processes in the presence of a medium, which we proceed to discuss.

## 4 Multi-gluon emissions

In addition to the above-mentioned inherent uncertainties of the single-gluon spectrum, another serious source of uncertainty arises when comparing to high- hadron spectra in relativistic heavy-ion collisions or, even more so, jets and jet substructure, where effects of multiple radiation (especially in the latter cases) necessarily have to be accounted for. In lieu of a rigorously derived fragmentation function, or jet calculus, in medium one usually employs working models, which a few of the most common we briefly outline below. For a more thorough discussion, see also Majumder:2010qh (); Armesto:2011ht ().

Firstly, one can assume that the medium effects factorize into a probability of energy loss to be convoluted with a vacuum fragmentation function Baier:2001yt (); Salgado:2003gb (), see (Beraudo:2012hs, , Sec. 1) in these proceedings. Such a convolution naturally favors the medium-induction of hard gluon emissions in (7). As already discussed in Beraudo:2012hs () certain medium effects, e.g. modified color flow, could invalidate such a factorized scheme. Another approach in the literature has been to define a modified Altarelli-Parisi splitting function, see Polosa:2006hb () and also Guo:2000nz (); Wang:2001ifa (); Majumder:2009ge (), which includes the effects of medium-induced radiation into the DGLAP cascade.101010These approaches are in fact closely related Armesto:2007dt (); by neglecting the virtuality ordering along the DGLAP cascade on comes back to the factorization lying at the heart of the quenching weights. This procedure has been implemented in Monte-Carlo generators such as Q-PYTHIA Armesto:2009fj (), Q-HERWIG Armesto:2009ab () and others. Finally, a formulation of the medium-induced emissions in terms of a time-dependent rate equation Jeon:2003gi (); CaronHuot:2010bp () has been implemented in the Monte-Carlo generator MARTINI Schenke:2009gb (). Worth mentioning here is also the versatile Monte-Carlo generator JEWEL Zapp:2008af (); Zapp:2011ya () which aims at a microscopical modeling of both the medium interactions and the subsequent induced radiation and which incorporates the LPM effect probabilistically.

To date none of the above approaches attempt to treat possible interference effects, discussed in Sec. 3. Focussing on processes where these are naturally suppressed, i.e., for soft gluon production in dense media (), one has recently formulated a generating functional for multi-gluon emissions, see MehtarTani:2012hp () in these proceedings. Besides, as mentioned before, the interface between bremsstrahlung and medium-induced radiation is unchartered and highly model dependent. We anticipate that progress along these lines can further elucidate the space-time structure of in-medium radiation and help putting calculations of jet cascading in heavy-ion collisions on firmer ground.

## 5 Perspectives

The calculation of radiative processes in medium has been established as a coherent framework within perturbative QCD. In this overview we have focussed on a few areas of progress. Firstly, improvements on the kinematics of emission which would be important for secondary emissions. Secondly, a more rigorous treatment of parton propagation in a QCD background which is imperative for a proper interpretation of the extracted medium characteristics from data. And, finally, attempts toward developing a in-medium multi-gluon calculus and analyses of interference effects. Hopefully, these improvements will elucidate our understanding of the dynamics of the plasma and aid in the construction of detailed models to be confronted with experimental data.

Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Y. Mehtar-Tani and C. A. Salgado for collaboration and fruitful discussions, and N. Armesto and N. Su for helpful comments on the manuscript. This work was supported in part by the Swedish Research Council (contract number 621-2010-3326).

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