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Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter - Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Hard Scattered Partons (= Probes)<br />

• Hard scatterings in nucleonnucleon<br />

collisions produce<br />

jets <strong>of</strong> particles.<br />

schematic view <strong>of</strong> jet production<br />

hadrons<br />

leading<br />

particle<br />

q<br />

jet<br />

• In particular, the jets are<br />

great probes <strong>of</strong> the medium<br />

they traverse<br />

hadrons<br />

jet<br />

leading particle<br />

q<br />

<strong>Hot</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Dense</strong> <strong>Nuclear</strong> matter 17

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