Theory seminar (11am): Isobel Kolbe : Realistic Monte Carlo modelling of Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Thursday 24 Apr 2025, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Veltman Centre (Nikhef)

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, as well as some key open problems in the field.  Lastly, I will briefly present some advances in modelling jets interacting with realistic plasma models.