Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect in QCD and radiative energy loss in a quark-gluon plasma

Abstract
The non-abelian analog of the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect is investigated in perturbative QCD. Extending our previous studies, the suppression of induced soft bremsstrahlung due to multiple scatterings of quarks in the spinor representation is considered. The effective formation time of gluon radiation due to the color interference is shown to depend on the color representation of the emitting parton, and an improved formula for the radiative energy loss is derived that interpolates between the factorization and Bethe-Heitler limits.Comment: 28 pages in REVTex, 4 figures in uuencoded files, LBL-3598
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