Jet Quenching in Heavy Ion Collisions

Wiedemann, Urs Achim

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01539-7_17

Jet Quenching in Heavy Ion Collisions

Urs Achim Wiedemann
(
- CERN
)

Aug, 2009

41 pages

Part of Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics, 521-562

Published in:

Landolt-Bornstein 23 (2010) 521

Published: 2010

e-Print:

0908.2306 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1007/978-3-642-01539-7_17

Report number:

CERN-PH-TH-2009-026

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This document is part of Volume 23 ‘Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics’ of Landolt-Börnstein - Group I ‘Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms’. It contains the Section ‘6.5 Jet Quenching in Heavy Ion Collisions’ of the Chapter ‘6 Selective Tracer Signals of the QCD Plasma State’ with the content: 6.5 Jet Quenching in Heavy Ion Collisions 6.5.1 Introduction 6.5.2 Jets in the absence and in the presence of a medium 6.5.2.1 Parametric estimates relevant for embedding hard processes in the medium 6.5.2.2 Jet definitions 6.5.2.2.1 Jet algorithms 6.5.2.2.2 Background and background fluctuations for jet reconstruction 6.5.2.3 Characterizations of the intra-jet structure 6.5.2.3.1 Jet event shapes 6.5.2.3.2 Jet substructures 6.5.2.3.3 Jet multiplicity distributions 6.5.2.3.4 Jet hadrochemistry 6.5.3 Leading hadrons in the absence and in the presence of a medium 6.5.3.1 Trigger biases 6.5.3.2 The nuclear modification factor 6.5.3.3 Triggered two-particle correlations 6.5.3.4 Features in the underlying event associated to high-pTtriggers 6.5.4 High-energy parton propagation in dense QCD matter 6.5.4.1 Parton propagation through dense QCD matter in the eikonal formalism 6.5.4.2 Gluon radiation off quarks produced in the medium 6.5.4.2.1 Gluon radiation in the path integral formalism 6.5.4.2.2 Qualitative features of medium-induced gluon radiation 6.5.4.2.3 Multiple gluon emission 6.5.4.2.4 BDMPS, Z, ASW, GLV, … and all that 6.5.4.3 Elastic interactions between projectile and medium 6.5.4.4 Monte Carlo Formulations of parton propagation in the medium 6.5.4.4.1 Parton shower in the vacuum 6.5.4.4.2 Simulating elastic interactions 6.5.4.4.3 Simulating inelastic processes 6.5.4.5 Applying the AdS/CFT correspondence to in-medium parton propagation

Note:

Review articel accepted for publication in the Landolt-Boernstein Handbook of Physics, ed. R. Stock. 41 pages LaTex, 7 eps-figures

heavy ion: scattering
jet: quenching
review
p p: inclusive reaction
hadron: hadroproduction
factorization
jet: hadroproduction
hard scattering
matter: effect
parton: fragmentation

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