Jet drift and collective flow in heavy-ion collisions

Flow Coefficients and Jet Characteristics in Heavy Ion Collisions

Identifying jets in heavy ion collisions is of significant interest since the properties of jets are expected to get modified because of the formation of quark gluon plasma. The detection of jets is, however, difficult because of large number of nonjet hadrons produced in the collision process. In this work we propose a method of identifying and determining the transverse momentum of jets by me...

Jet Tomography in Heavy Ion Collisions

Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC in Brookhaven show for the first time a significant quenching of high-p⊥ leading hadron spectra. In particular, transverse momentum spectra for neutral pion 1,2 and charged hadron 1,3 are suppressed if compared to spectra in p+p collisions rescaled by the number of binary collisions. This suppression is most pronounced (up to a factor ∼ 5)...

Jet reshaping in heavy-ion collisions

We propose a new implementation of medium effects in jet structures in which a modification of the splitting function is included at every step in the typical final state parton shower. Although the main application of this new formalism will be at the LHC, it is interesting that, in the presence of a trigger bias to small number of splittings, non-trivial angular dependences could appear with ...

Jet Quenching in Heavy Ion Collisions

Jet Photoproduction in Peripheral Heavy-Ion Collisions

In peripheral relativistic heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, jet+jet and photon+jet final states can be produced when a photon from the virtual photon field surrounding the nucleus interacts with a parton in the opposite nucleus (direct production). The virtual photon may also fluctuate into states with multiple gluons and qq pairs (resolved production), opening more channels f...