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Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5535–5538 (2000)

Non-Abelian Energy Loss at Finite Opacity

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M. Gyulassy1, P. Levai1,2, and I. Vitev1
1Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027
2KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, P.O. Box 49, Budapest, 1525, Hungary

Received 12 May 2000; published in the issue dated 25 December 2000

A systematic expansion in opacity, L/λ, is used to clarify the nonlinear behavior of induced gluon radiation in quark-gluon plasmas. The inclusive differential gluon distribution is calculated up to second order in opacity and compared to the zeroth order (factorization) limit. The opacity expansion makes it possible to take finite kinematic constraints into account that suppress jet quenching in nuclear collisions below RHIC ( s = 200 AGeV) energies.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5535
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5535
PACS:
25.75.-q, 12.38.Mh, 24.85.+p