High pT and jet physics from RHIC to LHC

Abstract

The observation of the strong suppression of high pT hadrons in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL has motivated a large experimental program using hard probes to characterize the deconfined medium created. However what can be denoted as ``leading particle physics'' accessible at RHIC presents some limitations which motivate at higher energy the study of much more penetrating objects: jets. The gain in center of mass energy expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will definitively improve our understanding on how the energy is lost in the system opening a new major window of study: the physics of jets on an event-by-event basis. We will concentrate on the expected performance for jet reconstruction in ALICE using the EMCal calorimeter.

14 pages, 14 figures, Proceedings of the Workshop on Relativistic Nuclear Physics (WRNP) 2007, Kiev, Ukraine. Conference Info: http://wrnp2007.bitp.kiev.ua/. Final version published in "Physics of Atomic Nuclei"

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• Transverse momentum and collision energy dependence of high $p_T$ hadron suppression in Au+Au collisions at ultrarelativistic energies
• Suppressed pi^0 Production at Large Transverse Momentum in Central Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Leading-particle suppression in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
• Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry and cross section for inclusive jet production in polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV
• Medium Modification of Jet Shapes and Jet Multiplicities
• Low- and Intermediate-p${}_T$ Di-hadron Distributions in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV from STAR

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