Aspects of Jet Production with PHENIX

TL;DR

This paper presents recent PHENIX detector results on two-particle correlations with direct photon triggers, providing insights into in-medium energy loss of fast partons in heavy-ion collisions, which helps understand QCD processes.

Contribution

It reports new experimental measurements of photon-triggered correlations in heavy-ion collisions, linking data to theoretical models of parton energy loss in the medium.

Findings

Observation of modifications in two-particle correlations with direct photons.

Evidence supporting models of parton energy loss in quark-gluon plasma.

Enhanced understanding of QCD processes in dense nuclear matter.

Abstract

Measurement of the in-medium energy loss of fast partons is one of the most active topics in heavy-ion physics. Such studies provide an opportunity to gain insight into the fundamental behavior of QCD processes by studying them away from vacuum conditions. A promising channel for relating theoretical models to data are two particle correlations using direct photon triggers. Recent results on this observeable using the PHENIX detector are presented.