Session J13: Minisymposium on Hard Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
10:45 AM–12:33 PM, Sunday, April 13, 2008
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Room: St. Louis F
Sponsoring Unit:
DNP
Chair: Xin-Nian Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.APR.J13.1
Abstract: J13.00001 : Hard Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introduction and Overview
10:45 AM–11:21 AM
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Author:
Abhijit Majumder
(Duke University)
The Quark-Gluon Plasma formed at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion collider (RHIC) is strongly interacting. Hard probes present the most rigorous tool in the study of the partonic substructure of the produced matter, where, the presence of a hard scale allows for the use of techniques based on perturbative QCD and factorization. These include a series of single jet observables, multi-particle jet correlations, jet-medium correlations as well as heavy quark and electromagnetic probes. The different approaches and approximation schemes used in the study of jet modification in dense matter are reviewed and major results reported. A variety of new jet correlation observables are outlined and their possible explanations and implications for the structure of the produced matter discussed.
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