Special Nuclear Seminar
Hard probes of strongly coupled QCD matter
Abhijit Majumder (Duke University)
The modification of hard jets, due to their passage through dense
matter, is at present the most rigorous tool in the study of extended
non-perturbative QCD matter. For the first time, computations based
on pQCD may be applied to a a variety of strongly interacting systems
from the cold confined matter in an atomic nucleus to the hot
deconfined matter being produced in high energy heavy-ion
collisions. The use of such probes, along with bulk observables, has
led to an enormous leap in our understanding of the structure of QCD
matter in both its confined and deconfined forms. A selection of both
jet-like and bulk matter observables which have played a central role
in this rapidly expanding field are reviewed. A series of open
questions, which will be addressed by the next generation of
deep-inelastic scattering and heavy-ion experiments are outlined.
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