Jet quenching in a strongly interacting plasma - A lattice approach

Abstract

The phenomenon of jet quenching, related to the momentum broadening of a high-energy parton, provides important experimental evidence for the production of a strongly coupled, deconfined medium in heavy-ion collisions. Its theoretical description has been addressed in a number of works, both perturbatively and non-perturbatively (using the gauge-gravity duality). In this contribution, following a proposal by Caron-Huot, we discuss a novel approach to this problem, enabling one to extract non-perturbative information on this real-time phenomenon from simulations on a Euclidean lattice.

6 pages, 3 pdf figures, talk presented at the 2013 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics "EPS HEP 2013" (18-24 July 2013, Stockholm, Sweden)