Introductory lectures on jet quenching in heavy ion collisions

Abstract

Jet quenching has become an essential signal for the characterization of the medium formed in experiments of heavy-ion collisions. After a brief introduction to the field, we present the full derivation of the medium-induced gluon radiation spectrum, starting from the diagrammatical origin of the Wilson lines and the medium averages and including all intermediate steps. The application of this spectrum to actual phenomenological calculations is then presented, making comparisons with experimental data and indicating some improvements of the formalism to the future LHC program. The last part of the lectures reviews calculations based on the AdS/CFT correspondence on the medium parameters controlling the jet quenching phenomenon.

63 pages, 17 figures, Presented at the XLVII Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, June 14-22, 2007

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• Drag force in AdS/CFT
• The QCD Equation of State with almost Physical Quark Masses
• Calculating the Jet Quenching Parameter from AdS/CFT
• Schwinger-Keldysh Propagators from AdS/CFT Correspondence
• Determination of nuclear parton distribution functions and their uncertainties at next-to-leading order
• Heavy-Quark Kinetics in the QGP at LHC
• Thermal Dileptons at LHC
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• Transverse momentum and centrality dependence of dihadron correlations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV: Jet-quenching and the response of partonic matter
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• Quark-Gluon Matter
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• Strongly Correlated Quantum Fluids: Ultracold Quantum Gases, Quantum Chromodynamic Plasmas, and Holographic Duality
• A Hybrid Strong/Weak Coupling Approach to Jet Quenching
• Measurement of charged-particle spectra in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathsf{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• Measurement of jet fragmentation into charged particles in pp and PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
• Transverse Momentum Broadening and the Jet Quenching Parameter, Redux
• Evidence of b-jet quenching in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
• Acceleration, Energy Loss and Screening in Strongly-Coupled Gauge Theories
• The radiation pattern of a QCD antenna in a dilute medium
• First measurement of large area jet transverse momentum spectra in heavy-ion collisions
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• Ab Initio Coupling of Jets to Collective Flow in the Opacity Expansion Approach
• A modified-Boltzmann approach for modeling the hot QCD medium-induce splitting vertices in the deep LPM region
• Gauge invariant definition of the jet quenching parameter
• A Simultaneous Description of Hadron and Jet Suppression in Heavy Ion Collisions
• Robustness and Infrared Sensitivity of Various Observables in the Application of AdS/CFT to Heavy Ion Collisions
• Jet quenching
• Holographic Lessons for Quark Dynamics
• Measurement of inclusive jet production and nuclear modifications in pPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV
• Quark jets scattering from a gluon field: from saturation to high $p_t$
• Transverse momentum spectra of b jets in pPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV
• Rapidity loss, spin and angular asymmetries in scattering of a quark from color field of a proton (nucleus)
• Sorting out quenched jets
• Effect of non-eikonal corrections on azimuthal asymmetries in the Color Glass Condensate
• Evolution of the Mean Jet Shape and Dijet Asymmetry Distribution of an Ensemble of Holographic Jets in Strongly Coupled Plasma
• Disentangling Jet Modification in Jet Simulations and in Z+Jet Data
• Elastic scattering of a quark from a color field: longitudinal momentum exchange
• Plasma photoemission from string theory
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• Measurement of quark- and gluon-like jet fractions using jet charge in PbPb and pp collisions at 5.02 TeV
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• A New Mechanism of Quark Energy Loss
• Holographic current correlators at finite coupling and scattering off a supersymmetric plasma
• Studies of charm quark diffusion inside jets using PbPb and pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=$ 5.02 TeV
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• Multi-partonic medium induced cascades in expanding media
• Parton fragmentation in the vacuum and in the medium
• Partons and jets in a strongly-coupled plasma from AdS/CFT
• Measuring chiral imbalance with collisional energy loss
• Finite width effects on the azimuthal asymmetry in proton-nucleus collisions in the Color Glass Condensate
• Thermalization of mini-jets in a quark-gluon plasma
• The gauge-string duality and heavy ion collisions
• Calculating the jet quenching parameter in the plasma of NCYM theory from gauge/gravity duality
• Parton branching and medium-induced radiation in a strongly coupled plasma
• Bayesian Constraints on Pre-Equilibrium Jet Quenching and Predictions for Oxygen Collisions
• Acceleration and Energy Loss in N=4 SYM
• Momentum Broadening in Weakly Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Monte Carlo for Jet Showers in the Medium
• Bjorken variable and scale dependence of quark transport coefficient in semi-inclusive lepton-production of hadron off nuclei
• Light-cone Wilson loop in classical lattice gauge theory
• Bjorken variable and scale dependence of quark transport coefficient in Drell-Yan process for proton incident on nucleus
• Advancing QCD-based calculations of energy loss
• High energy scattering and emission in QED&QCD media
• High-p_t in heavy ion collisions: an abridged theoretical overview
• Atomic mass, Bjorken variable and scale dependence of quark transport coefficient in Drell-Yan process for proton incident on nucleus
• Fluctuations in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions
• Energy peaks: a high energy physics outlook
• Studying the QGP with Jets at the LHC and RHIC
• Jet energy loss due to multiple scattering in the nucleus
• Multiparticle Dynamics in the LHC Era