(1) Institute of Particle Physics, Huazhong Normal University, 430079 Wuhan, PRC;(2) Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Norway
Abstract:
The energy loss of heavy quarks in a quark-gluon plasma of finite size is studied within the light-cone path integral approach. A simple analytical formulation of the radiative energy loss of heavy quarks is derived. This provides a convenient way to quantitatively estimate the quark energy loss. Our results show that if the energy of a heavy quark is much larger than its mass, the radiative energy loss approaches the radiative energy loss of light quarks.
