Are Jets Narrowed or Broadened in e+A SIDIS?
W. Horowitz*,
H. Clayton and
M. Sievert*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
November 23, 2022
Published on:
June 15, 2023
Abstract
We compute the in-medium jet broadening to leading order in energy in the opacity expansion. At leading order in αs the elastic energy loss gives a jet broadening that grows with lnE. The next-to-leading order in αs result is a jet narrowing, due to destructive LPM interference effects, that grows with ln2E. We find that in the opacity expansion the jet broadening asymptotics are---unlike for the mean energy loss---extremely sensitive to the correct treatment of the finite kinematics of the problem; integrating over all emitted gluon transverse momenta leads to a prediction of jet broadening rather than narrowing. We compare the asymptotics from the opacity expansion to a recent twist-4 derivation and find a qualitative disagreement: the twist-4 derivation predicts a jet broadening rather than a narrowing. Comparison with current jet measurements cannot distinguish between the broadening or narrowing predictions. We comment on the origin of the difference between the opacity expansion and twist-4 results.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.414.0479
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