Location: Cyclotron Building (434), Seminar Room
Dr. Abhijit Majumder, Duke University, Durham, NC
Probing the QGP with jets and jet correlations
Abstract:
The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) has produced a wide variety of measurements which have led to major strides in our understanding of the structure of strongly interacting matter heated beyond the deconfinement temperature. We focus on a class of observables centered around the perturbative modification of hard jets and jet-like correlations which have been instrumental in resolving the basic picture underlying some of the startling discoveries at RHIC. Jet modification and jet medium interactions will be shown to yield a consistent space-time profile of the expanding bulk matter, reveal its momentum structure and in conjunction with bulk fluctuations demonstrate sensitivity to the basic degrees of freedom prevalent in the Quark Gluon Plasma.