Topic: Jets in heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Prof. Guang-You Qin

Coordinates: PCFT C1124, 16:00, Thursday, November 21

Abstract: When the matter is heated up to two trillion degrees Kelvin, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) can be formed. It is believed that shortly after the Big Bang, the early universe was filled with hot and dense QGP. The primary goal of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is to create QGP in the laboratories, to study its novel properties and to explore the phase structure of strong-interaction matter under extreme conditions. High-energy jets provide very important probes for studying the macroscopic properties and microscopic structures of QGP created in relativistic nuclear collisions. In this talk, I will present some recent theoretical and phenomenological studies on jet quenching and medium response related to the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider.