Speaker
Thorsten Renk
(University of Jyväskylä)
Description
Jet quenching is a cornerstone of the heavy-ion physics program at the LHC.
I review the current understanding of jet quenching in terms of a QCD shower evolution being modified by the surrounding medium, leading to copious medium induced radiation, and I outline the evidence for this picture from the light parton sector. Conceptually, the QCD shower description should also be relevant for heavy quarks, but with several important modifications.
I discuss why heavy quark jets (especially in the limit of small E_jet/m_q)
do not reflect the same physics as light quarks and give an overview over
current attempts to explain how the observed behaviour of heavy quark jets can be understood.
Author
Thorsten Renk
(University of Jyväskylä)
