Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-06-30
Phys.Rev.D74:094002,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, 14 figures (high resolution figures available with authors); version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.094002
Using the high temperature approximation we study, within the linear response theory, the wake in the quark-gluon plasma by a fast parton owing to dynamical screening in the space like region. When the parton moves with a speed less than the average speed of the plasmon, we find that the wake structure corresponds to a screening charge cloud traveling with the parton with one sign flip in the induced charge density resulting in a Lennard-Jones type potential in the outward flow with a short range repulsive and a long range attractive part. On the other hand if the parton moves with a speed higher than that of plasmon, the wake structure in the induced charge density is found to have alternate sign flips and the wake potential in the outward flow oscillates analogous to Cerenkov like wave generation with a Mach cone structure trailing the moving parton. The potential normal to the motion of the parton indicates a transverse flow in the system. We also calculate the potential due to a color dipole and discuss consequences of possible new bound states and $J/\psi$ suppression in the quark-gluon plasma.
Chakraborty Purnendu
Mustafa Munshi G.
Thoma Markus H.
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