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Workshop: Next Generation of Jet Studies in Heavy-Ion Collisions II

11:00 am – 12:30 pm, Friday October 17 Session 2WG Hilton Chicago, Boulevard C, 2nd Floor
Chair:
Isaac Mooney, Yale University
Topics:

Measuring jet energy loss and its fluctuations in the quark-gluon plasma

11:00 am – 11:30 am
Presenter: Virginia Bailey (Georgia State University)

As high-momentum partons traverse the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions, they lose energy via collisional and radiative energy loss. The various microscopic mechanisms of energy loss have different dependencies on the path length traversed by the hard probe. Recently, multiple measurements have attempted to distinguish the differences in yields of high-momentum objects such as jets for different average path lengths, which will inform our theoretical understanding of the microscopic structure of the QGP and its interaction with colored probes. In addition, current and future measurements that can characterize fluctuations in jet energy loss that are currently not constrained experimentally, will be discussed.


 

Funding acknowledgement

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation MPS-Ascend Postdoctoral Research Fellowship under Grant No. 2402241.