Color Chiral Cherenkov radiation and energy loss in quark-gluon plasma

Abstract

We introduce and investigate the Color Chiral Cherenkov effect which consists in radiation of the circularly polarized gluons by a fast color charge moving with constant velocity in the presence of the Chiral Magnetic current. We derive the transition rates for all gluon polarizations. We compute the contribution of the Color Chiral Cherenkov effect to the parton energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma.

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures; v2: references and acknowledgments added, typos fixed