Jet v_{2} in Heavy Ion Collisions Measured at ALICE

ORAL

Abstract

Under the extreme conditions present in high energy heavy ion collisions, nuclear matter undergoes a phase transition into quark gluon plasma (QGP), a hot, dense, and short-lived phase of matter composed of freely interacting quarks and gluons. Hard scatterings of partons from the colliding nuclei result in collimated sprays of particles called jets. Jets form early in the collision and lose energy as they pass through the medium, making them excellent probes of the QGP’s properties. Jet v_{2} is an observable that quantifies the azimuthal angular asymmetry of jet yields. Measurements of jet v_{2} are sensitive to the path length dependence of in-medium parton energy loss. We will present jet v_{2} results from 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions obtained by ALICE at the LHC.

Presenters

  • William E Witt

    Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville

Authors

  • William E Witt

    Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville