NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF SOFT FERMION EXCITATIONS IN HOT QCD PLASMA: SOFT-QUARK BREMSSTRAHLUNG AND ENERGY LOSSES

Abstract

Within the framework of a semiclassical approximation the general theory of calculation of effective currents and sources generating bremsstrahlung of an arbitrary number of soft quarks and soft gluons at collision of a high-energy color-charged particle with thermal partons in a hot quark–gluon plasma is developed. For the case of one- and two-scattering thermal partons with radiation of one or two soft excitations, the effective currents and sources are calculated in an explicit form. In the model case of "frozen" medium, approximate expressions for energy losses induced by the most simple processes of bremsstrahlung of soft quark and soft gluon are derived. On the basis of a conception of the mutual cancellation of singularities in the sum of so-called "diagonal" and "off-diagonal" contributions to the energy losses, an effective method of determining color factors in scattering probabilities containing the initial values of Grassmann color charges is suggested. The dynamical equations for Grassmann color charges of hard particle used by us earlier on are proved to be insufficient for investigation of the higher radiative processes. It is shown that for correct description of these processes the given equations should be supplemented successively with the higher-order terms in powers of the soft fermionic field.