Impact of chiral asymmetry and magnetic field on passage of an energetic test parton in a QCD medium

We study the dependence of collisional energy loss of a test parton moving with a high velocity on the chiral imbalance and magnetic field in the QCD medium. A semi-classical approach is adopted to estimate the parton energy loss that takes into account the back-reaction on the parton due to the polarization effects of the QCD medium while traversing through the medium. We find that the motion of the parton is sensitive to the chiral asymmetry in the medium. Further, we investigate the effect of magnetic field-induced anisotropy on the energy transfer between the moving parton and the medium. Our results show that the energy loss of the parton is strongly influenced by the strength of the magnetic field as well as the relative orientation of the motion of the parton and the direction of the magnetic field in the medium.
9 pages, 5 figures