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Jet tomography

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

I summarize the recent advances in jet tomographic studies of cold and hot nuclear matter based on perturbative QCD calculations of medium-induced gluon bremsstrahlung. Quantitative applications to ultrarelativistic heavy ion reactions at RHIC indicate the creation of a deconfined state of QCD with initial energy density on the order of 100 times cold nuclear matter density.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0403089,
  title  = {Jet tomography},
  author = {Ivan Vitev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0403089},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Plenary talk given at the seventeenth international conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2004). 8 pages, 12 figures. Updated references, updated Table 2