Report number
| hep-ph/0003016 ; CERN-TH-2000-074 |
Title
| Collisional Energy Loss of Fast Charged Particles in Relativistic Plasmas |
Author(s)
| Thoma, Markus H. (CERN) |
Publication
| 2000 |
Imprint
| 2 Mar 2000 |
Number of pages
| 9 |
Note
| 9 pages, LATEX, 2 PostScript figures |
In:
| J. Phys. G 26 (2000) 1507-1514 |
DOI
| 10.1088/0954-3899/26/10/306
|
Subject category
| Particle Physics - Phenomenology |
Abstract
| Following an argument by Kirzhnits we rederive an exact expression for the energy loss of a fast charged particle in a relativistic plasma using the quantum field theoretical language. We compare this result to perturbative calculations of the collisional energy loss of an energetic electron or muon in an electron-positron plasma and of an energetic parton in the quark-gluon plasma. |