On the momentum broadening of in-medium jet evolution using a light-front Hamiltonian approach

Abstract

We have developed a non-perturbative light-front Hamiltonian formalism to simulate the real-time evolution of a quark state in a SU(3) colored medium, with a series of works. In this proceeding article, we focus on the transverse momentum broadening of an in-medium quark jet. We perform the numerical simulation of the quark jet evolution in the |𝑞i + |𝑞𝑔i Fock space at various medium densities. By analyzing the resulting jet light-front wavefunction, we extract the gluon emission rate and the non-eikonal quenching parameter. Additionally, we provide the analytical derivationof the eikonal expectation value of the quark-gluon state’s transverse momentum for any color configuration and arbitrary spatial distribution. This study can help understand jet momentum broadening beyond the eikonal limit.