Progress in jet reconstruction in heavy ion collisions

Journal article

We review recent developments related to jet clustering algorithms and jet reconstruction, with particular emphasis on their implications in heavy ion collisions. These developments include fast implementations of sequential recombination algorithms, new IRC safe algorithms, quantitative determination of jet areas and quality measures for jet finding, among many others. We also show how jet reconstruction provides a useful tool to probe the characteristics of the hot and dense medium created in heavy ion collisions, which allows to distinguish between different models of parton-medium interaction.

Authors: Rojo, J

• Publisher: CERN
• Journal: CERN-Proceedings
• Pages: 359-364
• Publication date: 2010-01-01
• ISSN: 2078-8835
• Language: English