Speaker
Dennis Perepelitsa
(Columbia University)
Description
Jet reconstruction in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC is becoming a popular tool to explore medium effects including the energy loss and modified fragmentation of hard-scattered partons. In p+A and d+A collisions, reconstructed jets are important for evaluating cold nuclear matter effects such as the impact parameter dependence of nuclear parton distribution functions and initial state energy loss. We present current PHENIX results from p+p, d+Au, and Cu+Cu collisions at 200 GeV using the Gaussian filter and anti-kT algorithms. The systematic study of direct jet reconstruction across a variety of collisions systems at PHENIX will help to tell a coherent story of jet physics at RHIC.
Primary author
Dennis Perepelitsa
(Columbia University)
