Project description
A slice of the quark-gluon pie
Experiments on heavy-ion collisions (HICs) make it possible to reproduce droplets of matter that filled the universe a microsecond after the Big Bang. These droplets have such high energy density that the quarks and gluons normally confined inside protons and neutrons form a continuous medium. This new state of matter is known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Studying QGP evolution is challenging, but hadronic jets, sprays of particles produced by energetic quarks or gluons leaving the QGP droplet, could help provide answers. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the JetT project is developing new theoretical techniques to describe jets and use them for tomographic study of the matter produced in HIC.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsmathematical physics
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsdynamical systems
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesnuclear physics
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyphysical cosmologybig bang
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsgluons
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsquarks
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsmathematical model
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinator
15782 Santiago De Compostela
Spain
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