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Energy Loss of Leading Partons in a Thermal QCD Medium

Sangyong Jeon, Guy D. Moore

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0309332

Abstract

We consider bremsstrahlung energy loss for hard partons traversing a quark-gluon plasma. Accounting correctly for the probabilistic nature of the energy loss, and making a leading-order accurate treatment of bremsstrahlung, we find that the suppression of the spectrum is nearly flat, with the most suppression at energies E 30 T (T the QGP temperature), in contrast to previous literature but in agreement with experimental data. This flat pattern should also be observed at the LHC.

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