HQ Collisional energy loss in a magnetized medium

Abstract

We study the effect of the magnetic field on the collisional energy loss of heavy quark (HQ) moving in a magnetized thermal partonic medium. This is investigated in the strong field approximation where the lowest Landau level (LLL) becomes relevant. We work in the limit g √ eB T √ eB which is relevant for heavy ion collisions. Effects of the magnetic field are incorporated through the resummed gluon propagator in which the dominant contribution arises from the quark loop. We also take the approximation √ eB M , M being the HQ mass, so that the HQ is not Landau quantized. It turns out that there are only two types of scatterings that contribute to the energy loss of HQ; the Coulomb scattering of HQ with light quarks/anti-quarks and the t-channel Compton scattering. It is observed that for a given magnetic field, the dominant contribution to the collisional energy loss arises from Compton scattering process i.e., Qg → Qg. On the other hand, of the two processes, the Coulomb scattering i.e., Qq → Qq is more sensitive to the magnetic field. The net collisional energy loss is seen to increase with increase in the magnetic field. For reasonable strength of the magnetic field, the field dependent contribution to the collisional energy loss is of the same order as to the case without magnetic field. This may be important for the jet quenching phenomena in the heavy ion collision experiments.

Photon Self-energy in Magnetized Chiral Plasma from Kinetic Theory

“…Let us again compare the tilted state with the equilibrium state rotated in such a way that the background magnetic field coincides with that of the tilted state [65]. We can use the covariant form of background solution (28) with δb M = B ⊥ M /B and δu = 0. δb M gives precisely δj M…”

“…In this appendix, we show the covariance of the background solution (28). We first write down the covariant chiral kinetic equations…”

“…In the presence of magnetic field, the photon self-energy contains very rich structure and is also very complicated in general. There have been many field theoretic attempts to study the photon self-energy [23][24][25][26], see also studies on gluon self-energy [27,28].…”