NBI Heavy-ion Seminar: Modelling jets in Heavy-ion collisions on a realistic background

Thursday 22 May 2025, 10:00 → 11:30 Europe/Copenhagen

NBB (NBI)

You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute)

Title: Modelling jets in Heavy-ion collisions on a realistic background

Speaker: Dr. Isobel Kolbé (University of the Witwatersrand)

Abstract: In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, it is widely accepted that a phase of matter with quark and gluon degrees of freedom is created.  This quark-gluon plasma is extremely short-lived (10^-23 seconds), and must therefore be studied by understanding emerging patterns in the produced hadrons that arrive in detectors. A key observable is the manner in which the presence of the plasma modifies the spectrum and structure of high-momentum particles that traverse the plasma - a phenomenon known as jet quenching.  In this talk, I will introduce the manner in which such jets are measured experimentally and modelled theoretically.  Lastly, I will briefly present some advances in modelling jets interacting with realistic plasma models, and the importance of such modelling to address a key open problem in the field.

Time: May 22nd, 2025, at 10 AM

Location: NBB-H-3-076 (section meeting room)