JETSCAPE Research for Comparison of Experimental to Monte Carlo Jet Data

Shortly, after the Big Bang, the universe was in a state of Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). This QGP can be recreated in the lab via high energy collisions. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN are able to accelerate particles to nearly the speed of light, making it possible for nuclei to transition to a Quark Gluon Plasma. Sometimes, when QGP is formed, a parton at high momentum will travel through the QGP, losing energy to the medium and eventually fragment into collimated sprays of particles called a jet. The JETSCAPE collaboration attempts to interpret jet measurements into properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma. One such jet measurement is the nuclear modification factor, which measures the suppression of a final state hadrons formed from high energy partons. The nuclear modification factor can provide information about physical phenomena, like jet quenching, that go on inside the QGP. We will discuss jet spectra measurements and their implementation in the RIVET framework for comparison to JETSCAPE Monte Carlo models.