Probing Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter with Particle Correlations and Jets at RHIC

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent experimental studies of the quark-gluon plasma at RHIC, focusing on particle correlations and jets to understand the medium's properties.

Contribution

It provides an overview of recent advances in probing the QGP using particle correlations and jet measurements at RHIC.

Findings

Evidence of jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions

Insights into the bulk properties of the QGP

Enhanced particle correlations indicating medium effects

Abstract

The hot and dense medium created at RHIC, called Quark and Gluon Plasma (QGP) has been a hot topic in the last ten years. Due to the high multiplicities in such heavy-ion collision events, particle correlations using either trigger particles, or fully-reconstructed jets, become not only useful but necessary, in addition to the single particle observables. In this paper the most recent work studying this medium will be shown, including both on bulk properties and tagged events.