Mach Conesin a PerturbativeQuark-Gluon Plasma.ppt

Mach Conesin a Perturbative Quark-Gluon Plasma Berndt Mueller – Duke University Quark Matter 2008 Jaipur, India, 2 - 10 February 2008 An interesting question Is a Mach cone created when a supersonic parton propagates through the quark gluon plasma? A Mach cone is formed when an object moves faster than the speed of sound in the medium. What is the energy and momentum perturbation of the medium due to a fast parton? In real life…. Formalism Hydrodynamics Unscreened source With screening Energy density z-Momentum density x-Momentum density More comparisons Linearized hydro The Mach cone (at last!) Contour plots pQCD vs. N=4 SYM Conclusion SQM2006 * Credits to: M. Asakawa R.B. Neufeld C. Nonaka J. Ruppert What happens here ?! What happens here ?! Relevant dynamical quantities: Calculate the interaction of the color field of the supersonic parton with the medium by means of semi-classical transport theory: If the medium is color neutral, to lowest order: medium In the macrocopic limit this yields hydrodynamic equations with source terms: Momentum space integrals yield term ~ mD2: For an unscreened color charge, analytical result in u?1 limit: Applying infrared (screening) and ultraviolet (quantum) cuts on the ?-integral gives the standard expression for collisional energy loss: Use HTL di-electric functions for ? = ukz : Expressions for J?(x) can be reduced to sums of products of two-dimensional Fourier integrals, which can be performed numerically after contour rotation in the complex plane. J0(?,z) unscreened J0(?,z) screened (z - ut) ? ? ? (z - ut) ? ? ? u = 0.99 (GeV)4 (GeV)4 Jz(?,z) unscreened Jz(?,z) screened (z - ut) ? ? ? (z - ut) ? ? ? u = 0.99 (GeV)4 (GeV)4 Jx(?,z) unscreened Jx(?,z) screened (z - ut) ? ? ? (z - ut) ? ? ? u = 0.99 (GeV)4 (GeV)4 Jz(z-ut) at ? = 2 GeV-1 Jx(z-ut) at ? = 1 GeV-1 Unscreened Screened u = 0.99 (GeV)4 (GeV)4 Linearize hydro eqs. for a weak source: T00 ? ?? + ??, T0i ? gi . Solve in Fourier space f