Speaker
Virginia Bailey
(Georgia State University)
Description
Jets produced in collisions of heavy nuclei lose energy as they pass through the hot, dense nuclear medium known as the quark-gluon plasma produced in the collision. The azimuthal anisotropy of jet production in heavy ion collisions measures the correlations of jets and the initial geometry of the collision, giving insight into path-length dependent energy loss in the medium. This talk will present an overview of experimental results of these observables with a particular emphasis on comparing different experimental techniques used in the measurements. I will also discuss the feasibility and physics impact of performing such measurements at RHIC with the sPHENIX detector.
Author
Virginia Bailey
(Georgia State University)
