Bulk medium evolution has considerable effects on jet observables

Abstract

Collisions of heavy ions at relativistic energies produce strongly interacting matter in a state of high energy density, known as the quark-gluon plasma. Such events also produce energetic QCD jets that will interact, excite, and probe the plasma before being measured by the surrounding detectors. Using numerical modeling, this paper shows that the reconstructed jets have the potential to distinguish among different possible flow patterns of the underlying strongly interacting hadronic fluid.

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