Comparison of Experimental and Theoretical Calculations of Azimuthal Anisotropy in Heavy Ion Collisions

Beams of heavy ions are accelerated near the speed of light and collide into each other to produce a hot, dense matter called the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). The particles produced in these ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions are measured in detectors such as ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS), and CMS (The Compact Muon Solenoid) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Detectors are used to capture details about the evolution of this medium for further study since the QGP only exists for a fraction of a second. The properties of the medium can be determined by studying jets, the collimated sprays of high energy particles created by partons which have traversed through the QGP. The azimuthal dependence of jet production provides information on the path length dependence of partonic energy loss. Experimental analyses will be implemented in the RIVET framework to make systematic comparisons between data and Monte Carlo models developed by the JETSCAPE collaboration. We will present the implementation of the jet anisotropy measurements in RIVET.