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arxiv: 0903.5174 · v2 · pith:EIN4I573new · submitted 2009-03-30 · ✦ hep-ph

Comparing energy loss phenomenology

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keywords energylosshigh-ptmatterpartonapproximationapproximationsbrick
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High-pT particle production is suppressed in heavy ion collisions due to parton energy loss in dense QCD matter. Here we present a systematic comparison of two different theoretical approximations to parton energy loss calculations: the opacity expansion and the multiple-soft scattering approximation for the simple case of a quark traversing a homogeneous piece of matter with fixed length (the TECHQM 'brick problem'), with focus on the range of parameters that is relevant for interpreting RHIC measurements of high-pT hadron suppression.

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