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arxiv: 1601.06545 · v1 · pith:TROSKWPPnew · submitted 2016-01-25 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

Energy loss at NLO in a high-temperature Quark-Gluon Plasma

classification ✦ hep-ph nucl-th
keywords bremsstrahlungenergyequationslossamplitudesanalysisanalyticarnold-moore-yaffe
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We present an extension of the Arnold-Moore-Yaffe kinetic equations for jet energy loss to NLO in the strong coupling constant. A novel aspect of the NLO analysis is a consistent description of wider-angle bremsstrahlung (semi-collinear emissions), which smoothly interpolates between 2<->2 scattering and collinear bremsstrahlung. We describe how many of the ingredients of the NLO transport equations (such as the drag coefficient) can be expressed in terms of Wilson line operators and can be computed using a Euclidean formalism or sum rules, both motivated by the analytic properties of amplitudes at light-like separations. We conclude with an outlook on the computation of the shear viscosity at NLO.

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