Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2011-10-09
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
Proceedings of DPF 2011, Brown University, RI
Scientific paper
I present an overview of some of the recent results on jets and jet-like correlation measurements from the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Jets are produced in the initial hard scatterings of an event and can therefore be exploited as probes of the hot and dense medium produced in heavy-ion collisions. Previous RHIC results indicate that this medium, the Quark Gluon Plasma (sQGP), is strongly coupled, with partonic degrees of freedom. High pT colored partons passing through the sQGP are therefore believed to suffer energy loss via induced gluon radiation and elastic collisions, before exiting the medium and fragmenting in vacuum. Jet reconstruction and high pT correlation studies allow us to investigate how the partons interact with the medium and how the medium responds to the partons moving through it. By comparing measurements from pp and d-Au to those in Au-Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV we aim to disentangle cold nuclear matter effects from those of the hot and dense sQGP.
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