Recent Results on Jet Quenching from STAR
2019 RHIG & AGS Annual User’s Meeting – High Pt/Jets Parallel Workshop June 4, 2019 Saehanseul Oh for the STAR Collaboration (Yale University - BNL) 1 Introduction
STAR, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 072304
• Early experimental evidence of “jet quenching” from STAR
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 2 Introduction
STAR, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 072304
• Early experimental evidence of “jet quenching” from STAR
• Jets from heavy-ion collisions are suppressed and broadened compared to those from pp collisions
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 3 Introduction
STAR, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 072304
• Early experimental evidence of “jet quenching” from STAR
• Jets from heavy-ion collisions are suppressed and broadened compared to those from pp collisions
Recent results on jet quenching from STAR ü Di-jet imbalance ü Semi-inclusive jet (triggered-jet) Various measurements can be connected to different aspects ü Event-plane dependent measurements of jet properties ü Jet flavor dependent measurements ü Jet angular scale dependent measurements
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 4 Introduction
Key questions for more differential jet-quenching measurements
vs. vs.
Different jet vertex/direction in the medium Out-of-plane In-plane
Dependence on where the jet is produced inside of the medium?
vs. vs.
quark-jet gluon-jet Narrow jet Wide jet
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 5 Introduction
Key questions for more differential jet-quenching measurements
vs. vs.
Different jet vertex/direction in the medium Out-of-plane In-plane
Path-length dependence in non-central AA collisions?
vs. vs.
quark-jet gluon-jet Narrow jet Wide jet
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 6 Introduction
Key questions for more differential jet-quenching measurements
vs. vs.
Different jet vertex/direction in the medium Out-of-plane In-plane
vs. vs.
quark-jet gluon-jet Narrow jet Wide jet
Jet flavor dependence?
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 7 Introduction
Key questions for more differential jet-quenching measurements
vs. vs.
Different jet vertex/direction in the medium Out-of-plane In-plane
vs. vs.
quark-jet gluon-jet Narrow jet Wide jet
Jet angular scale dependence?
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 8 Introduction
Key questions for more differential jet-quenching measurements
vs. vs.
• STAR’s efforts to answer these questions will be addressed Different jet vertex/direction in the mediumin this presentation Out-of-plane In-plane • Some observables are connected to more than one of these questions
vs. vs.
quark-jet gluon-jet Narrow jet Wide jet
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 9 The Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (STAR)
BEMC ü Barrel Electromagnetic Calorimeter ü � < 1.0, 0 < � < 2� ü Trigger
TPC ü Time Projection Chamber ü � < 1.0, 0 < � < 2� ü Tracking, momentum, ��/��
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 10 The Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (STAR)
BEMC ü Barrel Electromagnetic Calorimeter ü � < 1.0, 0 < � < 2� ü Trigger
Neutral constituents
TPC ü Time Projection Chamber Full Jet ü � < 1.0, 0 < � < 2� Charged constituents ü Tracking, momentum, ��/�� Charged Jet
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 11 Di-jet Imbalance
vs.
Different jet vertex/direction in the medium
Dependence on where the jet is produced inside of the medium?
Saehanseul Oh – Jet quenching @STAR 12 Di-jet Imbalance