Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter - Department of Physics and Astronomy
Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter - Department of Physics and Astronomy
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