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In high-energy heavy-ion collisions a nearly perfect fluid, the so-called strongly coupled quark gluon plasma forms. After the short period of thermalisation, the evolution of this medium can be described by the laws of relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-26 Gábor Kasza

Ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC open exciting new possibilities for jet physics studies in the presence of hot and dense nuclear matter. Recent theoretical advances in understanding the QCD multi-parton dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan Vitev

Results from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC on direct photon production in p+p, d+Au, and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV are presented. In p+p collisions, direct photon production at high p_T behaves as expected from perturbative…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefan Bathe

Recent progress in full jet reconstruction in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC makes it a promising tool for the quantitative study of the QCD at high energy density. Measurements in d+Au collisions are important to disentangle initial state…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jan Kapitan

These proceedings present a brief overview of the main results on jet-modifications in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. In heavy ion collisions, jets are studied using single hadron spectra and di-hadron correlations with a high-\pt{} trigger…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-08-07 M. van Leeuwen

Back-to-back light and heavy flavor dijet measurements are promising experimental channels to accurately study the physics of jet production and propagation in a dense QCD medium. They can provide new insights into the path length, color…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-22 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jared Reiten , Ivan Vitev , Boram Yoon

I review some important results from RHIC experiments. They were obtained in a unique environment for studying QCD bulk matter at temperatures and densities that surpass the limits where hadrons can exist as individual entities, raising the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-01-08 Rachid Nouicer

In the past decade the observation of cross section modification for leading hadrons, heavy flavor and two particle correlations in heavy ion collisions has provided important insights into the dynamics of parton propagation in dense…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Ivan Vitev

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

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 employ new field-theoretical tools to study photons and jets in a non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma. Jet broadening and photon emission takes place through radiation which is suppressed by repeated and coherent interaction with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Sigtryggur Hauksson , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

We compute the photon yield and elliptic flow coefficient in relativistic heavy-ion collisions from gluon fusion and splitting processes induced by a magnetic field for different centralities. The calculation accounts for the intense…

Posterior distributions for physical parameters describing relativistic heavy-ion collisions, such as the viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma, are extracted through a comparison of hydrodynamic-based transport models to experimental results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 John Novak , Kevin Novak , Scott Pratt , J. Vredevoogd , Chris Coleman-Smith , Robert Wolpert

Measurements from the RHIC experiments show a strong suppression in the yield of high-p$_\mathrm{T}$ single hadrons and a clear reduction in strength of the di-jet signal in two-hadron azimuthal-angle correlation functions in central Au+Au…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Tadaaki Isobe

The measurement of gamma+jet events with a direct photon in coincidence with an energetic parton can provide unique insights into the propagation and fragmentation of the parton in the presence of the hot and dense medium created in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Thomas Dietel

Photons are a penetrating probe of the hot medium formed in heavy-ion collisions, but they are emitted from all collision stages. At photon energies below 2-3 GeV, the measured photon spectra are approximately exponential and can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-02 Chun Shen , Ulrich W. Heinz , Jean-Francois Paquet , Charles Gale

Current status of dynamical modeling of relativistic heavy ion collisions and hydrodynamic description of the quark gluon plasma is reported. We find the hadronic rescattering effect plays an important role in interpretation of mass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-01-15 Tetsufumi Hirano

One of the key signatures of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is the modification of hadron and direct photon spectra in heavy-ion collisions as compared to proton-proton (pp) collisions. Suppression of hadron production at high transverse…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Astrid Morreale

The recent results on direct photons and dileptons in high energy heavy ion collisions, obtained particularly at RHIC and LHC are reviewed. The results are new not only in terms of the probes, but also in terms of the precision. We will…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-20 Takao Sakaguchi

Cross sections for mid-rapidity production of direct photons in p+p collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are reported for 3 < p_T < 16 GeV/c. Next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) describes the data well…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 PHENIX Collaboration , S. S. Adler