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Jets in heavy ion collisions with ATLAS

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2013

Abstract

The energy loss of high-p(T) partons provides insight into the transport properties of the medium created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Evidence for this energy loss was first experimentally established through observation of high-p(T) hadron suppression at RHIC.

More recently, measurements of fully reconstructed jets have been performed at the LHC. In this summary the latest experimental results from the ATLAS collaboration on jet suppression are presented.

In particular the jet suppression in inclusive jet yields, path length dependence of the jet suppression, photon-jet and Z(0)-jet correlations, heavy flavor suppression, and jet fragmentation are discussed. These results establish qualitative features of the jet quenching mechanism as experimental fact and provide constraints on models of jet energy loss.