Jet probes of QCD matter: single jets and dijets in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

Modifications of jets in the existence of a hot and dense QCD medium have recently attracted a lot of attentions. In this talk, we demonstrate how jet-medium interactions change the behavior of jets by offering examples of inclusive jet and dijet productions at $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s^3)$ in heavy ion collisions including initial-state cold nuclear effects and especially the final-state parton energy loss effect. The suppression of inclusive jet spectrum varying with jet radii and a flatter dijet momentum imbalance as compared to those in hadron-hadron collisions are observed in high-energy nuclear collisions.

Comments: Talk at Quark Matter 2012. Small typos corrected. 4 pages, 3 figures