Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation for Hard Partons in a Gluonic Plasma

Abstract

We derive a fluctuation dissipation relation connecting the drag and diffusion jet transport coefficients for an energetic light quark traversing a non-perturbative thermalized gluon plasma. The hard quark is taken to be close to on-shell, with an energy scale parametrically larger than the medium temperature. We introduce a general complex-valued function for each transport coefficient. Evaluating these in the deep Euclidean momentum region enables their expression in terms of local operators. Using contour-integration techniques, we relate these local operators, after vacuum subtraction, to the physical transport coefficients that arise along a branch cut, close to light-like dispersion. The derived relation relates the longitudinal drag coefficient to the longitudinal and transverse diffusion coefficients, a $4^{\rm th}$ order fluctuation, and the thermal gluon condensate.

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• Figure 1: A forward scattering diagram for the hard quark undergoing a single scattering off the gluon field in the plasma. The vertical dashed line represents the cut-line.