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The Quark-Gluon plasma (QGP) is a state of hot and dense matter where quarks and gluons are deconfined and is produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, at both RHIC (BNL) and at the LHC (CERN). Jets (resulting from hard partonic collisions) that develop within the QGP are modified with respect to their vacuum counterparts (eg, jets produced in proton-proton collisions that develop in empty space) due to its interaction with the medium. Such interaction is referred to as jet quenching, and it provides detailed information on QGP properties.
Current Monte Carlo event generators used to explore the phenomenology of jet quenching fail short of addressing the light nuclei collisions. One of the reasons for that, is the Glauber model used by such event generators. However, the future availability of collisions of light nuclei (OO during LHC Run3) calls for an update to these Monte Carlo generators.
Therefore, the plan is to first develop a small systems initial geometry model and its event-by-event implementation in the JEWEL Monte Carlo event generators, and then make a comparative study of jet substructure, and their eventual geometrical biases, in collisions of light and heavy nuclei.
