Experimental Status of Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current experimental findings on jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions at LHC and RHIC, highlighting its role as a key indicator of quark-gluon plasma formation and properties.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent experimental results on jet modifications, emphasizing advances in understanding QCD deconfinement in heavy-ion collisions.

Findings

Jet quenching confirms the formation of quark-gluon plasma.

Recent measurements show significant jet modifications in heavy-ion collisions.

Experimental data supports the use of jets as probes of QCD matter.

Abstract

Jet quenching has been one of the most important indicators that ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions produce a deconfined state of quarks and gluons, known as the Quark-Gluon Plasma. While the quenching of jets traditionally refers to the energy loss of high-momentum partons, the study of jet quenching has grown into a multi-pronged field where the measurement of jets and their modification in heavy-ion collisions is used as an important tool to study many aspects of QCD deconfinement. This contribution reviews the current experimental status of jets at the LHC and RHIC, and reports recent experimental highlights.