Color randomization of fast gluon-gluon pairs in the quark-gluon plasma
We study the color randomization of two-gluon states produced after splitting of a primary fast gluon in the quark-gluon plasma. We find that for the LHC conditions the color randomization of the pairs is rather slow. At jet energies and GeV, for typical jet path length in the plasma in central Pb+Pb collisions, the -multiplet averaged color Casimir of the pair differs considerably from its value for a fully randomized state. Our calculations of the energy dependence for generation of the nearly collinear decuplet states, that can lead to the baryon jet fragmentation, show that the contribution of the anomalous decuplet color states to the baryon production should become small at GeV.