Conveners
Session 5
- Mike McCumber (LANL)
Dr
Aaron Angerami
(Columbia University)
12/01/2016, 09:00
In relativistic heavy ion collisions a hot and dense medium of unscreened color charges is produced. Jets arising from hard scattering processes occurring in the early stages of the collisions become attenuated as they propagate through this medium, and thus jets are a crucial tool in characterizing the medium's properties. Connecting experimental results to a theoretical picture and...
Dr
Grigory Ovanesyan
(UMass)
12/01/2016, 09:30
Recently an effective field theory for jets in the dense QCD matter has been developed and applied for jet quenching phenomenology. This Soft Collinear Effective Theory with Glauber gluons allows for calculation of medium-induced splitting kernels beyond the approximations made in the traditional energy loss. In this talk we review such results and their incorporation in the QCD evolution...
Prof.
Rosi Reed
(Wayne State University)
12/01/2016, 10:00
For more than a decade, heavy-ion collisions have allowed us to study the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in these collisions, where relevant degrees of freedom are partonic rather than hadronic. In the initial stage of the collision, high energy nucleon collisions produce high transverse momentum partons, which fragment and hadronize into a spray of particles that we call a jet. Jets are a...