Realistic modelling of jets in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

The reconstruction of jets in heavy-ion collisions provides insight into the dynamics of hard partons in media. Unlike the spectrum of single hadrons, the spectrum of jets is highly sensitive to ${\hat{q}}_{\perp }$, as well as being sensitive to partonic energy loss and radiative processes. We use MARTINI, an event generator, to study how finite-temperature processes at leading order affect dijets.

4 pages, 5 figures; presented at the 5th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2012), May 27 - June 1, 2012, Cagliari, Italy

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• Finite-size effects on the radiative energy loss of a fast parton in hot and dense strongly interacting matter
• The evolving distribution of hard partons traversing a hot strongly interacting plasma