Projetos

Heavy-ion collisions are an excellent laboratory to study the quark-gluon plasm (QGP), an almost perfect liquid made of quarks and gluons, the elementary particles described by one of the building blocks of the Standard Model of particle physics: Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). QGP physics revolves around a multi-scale problem: from the highly energetic quarks and gluons described by perturbative QCD (jets) to the collective motion of strongly interacting gluons at lower energy scales. While complex, this versatility opens a multitude of opportunities to analyze the dynamics of this state of quantum matter. At the LHC (CERN) and RHIC (BNL), jets are widely used as the fundamental probe of this system. They propagate through the fast-expanding medium, carrying information about its evolution. In this internship, the student will join our efforts to use these objects to study the complex dynamics of the medium. The work consists of exploring different jet algorithms to unveil the transverse structure of the QGP that is currently produced in these ultra-relativistic heavy-ion colliders.