Energy Loss of Hard Partons in Nuclear Matter
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We report on recent calculations of the medium-induced gluon radiation off hard partons. The employed path-integral formalism reduces in limiting cases to the main “jet quenching” results of the existing literature. Moreover, it describes destructive interference effects between medium-independent and medium-induced radiation amplitudes. These affect the angular distribution and L-dependence of the medium-induced gluon bremsstrahlung spectrum significantly.
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