The Letter Q (and Quantitative Constraints on the QGP)

TL;DR

This paper reviews and extends a methodology for quantitatively constraining theoretical model parameters of the quark-gluon plasma using experimental data, including high pT particle suppression and di-jet observations.

Contribution

It introduces extensions to existing methods for constraining QGP models, incorporating additional energy-loss calculations and comparison channels.

Findings

Extended methodology for QGP parameter constraints.

Applied to high pT particle suppression data.

Compared with di-jet observations.

Abstract

In this proceedings, we briefly review the methodology from [arXiv:0801.1665] for quantitatively constraining theoretical model parameters from experimental measurements including statistical and systematic uncertainties. We extend this methodology to additional parton energy-loss calculations for single inclusive high pT particle suppression, and also extend the comparisons to di-jet observations. This is only the start of a process to give quantitative constraints on the quark-gluon plasma, and substantial theoretical uncertainties need to be reduced/resolved in a parallel path.