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We investigate the radiative break-up of a highly energetic quark or gluon in a high-temperature QCD plasma. Within an inertial range of momenta T ≪ ω ≪ E, where E denotes the energy of the original hard parton (jet) and T the temperature of the medium, we find that, as a result of the turbulent nature of the underlying parton cascade, the quark to gluon ratio of the soft fragments tends to a universal constant value that is independent of the initial conditions. We discuss implications of this result to jet quenching physics and the problem of thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions.
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Mehtar-Tani, Y., Schlichting, S. Universal quark to gluon ratio in medium-induced parton cascade. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 144 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)144
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