The Jet Quenching Parameter and Effective Theories

by Michael Benzke (UHH)

Monday 12 Jan 2015, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

semiar room 2, building 2A (DESY Hamburg)

Heavy ion collisions performed at RHIC and LHC have collected increasing amounts of evidence for the existence of the quark-gluon plasma. Jets can be used to probe this new phase of matter by measuring the influence of the in-medium interactions on several jet observables. In this talk I will review an effective theory approach to the definition and determination of an appropriate quantity to characterize these interactions.