Jet Quenching Parameter via Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET)
Abstract
We analyze the transverse momentum broadening in the absence of radiation of an energetic parton propagating through quark-gluon plasma via Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). We show that the probability for picking up transverse momentum k is given by the Fourier transform of the expectation value of two transversely separated light-like path-ordered Wilson lines. The subtleties about the ordering of operators do not change the q value for the strongly coupled plasma of N=4 SYM theory.
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