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Jet physics in relativistic heavy ion collisions, which combines perturbative QCD jet production with quark and gluon energy loss and in-medium parton shower modification, has emerged as a powerful tool to probe the properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-24 Ben-Wei Zhang , Yuncun He , R. B. Neufeld , Ivan Vitev , Enke Wang

Results from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC in p-p and Au+Au collisions are reviewed from the perspective of measurements in p-p collisions at the CERN-ISR which serve as a basis for many of the techniques used. Issues such as J/Psi…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-30 M. J. Tannenbaum

Studies of fully-reconstructed jets in heavy-ion collisions aim at extracting thermodynamical and transport properties of hot and dense QCD matter. Recently, a plethora of new jet substructure observables have been theoretically and…

Collisions of simple systems, such as $p$+$p$, or $p$+Nucleus have been used as benchmarks for our understanding of heavy ion collsions, since it was assumed they would be free of the effects from hot nuclear matter. Recently long range…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Sarah Campbell

Jet energy transported to quark-gluon plasma during jet-medium interaction excites the QGP medium and creates energetic thermal partons -- recoil particles or recoils. Modification of the jet structure in heavy ion collisions is studied…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Chanwook Park , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

We review the physics of nuclear matter at high energy density and the experimental search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The data obtained in the first three years of the RHIC physics program…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Jacobs , Xin-Nian Wang

Jet Flavor Tomography is a powerful tool used to probe the properties of Quark Gluon Plasma formed in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. A new Monte Carlo model of jet quenching developed at Columbia University, CUJET, was applied to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-02 Alessandro Buzzatti , Miklos Gyulassy

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, studying jet correlations and their dependence on the angle of emission with respect to the reaction plane can be used to shed light on the path length dependence of the energy lost by the jet. In this…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-08-05 David Winter

Understanding the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that is produced in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions has been one of the top priorities of the heavy ion program at the LHC. Energetic jets are produced and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Yang-Ting Chien

This contribution presents the latest results on heavy quarkonia (j/psi and upsilon) production in d+A and A+A collisions at RHIC at a center of mass energy per nucleon-nucleon collision sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV, measured by the PHENIX…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Hugo Pereira Da Costa

Large transverse momentum jets provide unique tools to study dense QCD matter in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Results from RHIC on suppression of high transverse momentum particles in Au+Au collisions indicate a significant energy loss…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Christof Roland , Gábor I. Veres , Krisztián Krajczár

In ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.5 TeV at the ALICE experiment at the LHC, interactions between the high-$p_{T}$ partons and the hot, dense medium produced in the collisions, are expected to lead to jet…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 Sarah-Louise Blyth

The suppression of high momentum particles in heavy-ion collisions in comparison to elementary reactions is one of the main indications for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma. In recent studies, full jets are being reconstructed and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-25 Philipp Dorau , Jean-Bernard Rose , Daniel Pablos , Hannah Elfner

After ten years of running, the PHENIX Collaboration is starting to lay out the compelling physics that RHIC, as the most versatile hadron collider in the world, will be well positioned to explore beyond the program planned for upgrades…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Christine A. Aidala

Measurement of the in-medium energy loss of fast partons is one of the most active topics in heavy-ion physics. Such studies provide an opportunity to gain insight into the fundamental behavior of QCD processes by studying them away from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Matthew Nguyen

From the wealth of data obtained from the first three years of RHIC operation, the four RHIC experiments, BRAHMS, PHENIX, PHOBOS and STAR, have concluded that a high density partonic matter is formed at central Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Rachid Nouicer

Some physical aspects of the ALICE experiment at the LHC are considered with emphasis on possible probes of quark-gluon plasma, created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-19 A. A. Isayev

Recent experimental measurements of high $p_T$ hadron spectra and jet correlation at RHIC are analyzed within a parton model which incoporates initial jet production and final propagation in heavy-ion collisions. The suppresion of single…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Xin-Nian Wang

Jets are suppressed and modified in heavy ion collisions, which serve as powerful probes to the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Attributed to the abundant information carried by the jet constituents and reconstructed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-22 Yi-Lun Du

At the future electron-positron TeV linear collider, the reachable physics will be strongly dependent on the detector capability to reconstruct high energy jets in multi-jet environment. At LEP, SLD experiments, a technique combining…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 Jean-Claude Brient