Speaker
Dr
Ivan Vitev
(LANL)
Description
I will discuss recent developments in the theory of jets in ultra-relativistic nuclear collision,
with an emphasis on heavy flavor production. Starting with inclusive jets, I will show how
the technique of semi-inclusive jet functions, first developed in the framework of soft
collinear effective theory, can be applied to c-jets and b-jets in heavy ion collisions. For the
case of dijets, I will present the first calculation of the dijet mass modification in nucleus-nucleus
reactions. The advantage of this new observable is that the energy loss effects on the
individual jets combine to give enhanced sensitivity to the transport properties of the
quark-gluon plasma.
Primary author
Dr
Ivan Vitev
(LANL)
