9–11 Sept 2020
Durham University
Europe/London timezone

String shoving in jets in PYTHIA8

9 Sept 2020, 14:20
20m

Speaker

Smita Chakraborty (Lund University)

Description

Jet observables in dijet events are excellent probes to study collision dynamics in dense systems. Interacting Lund strings will affect jet observables and suggests a new common mechanism responsible for jet modification in p-A and A-A. In this talk, we present our new implementation of the string shoving mechanism in PYTHIA8 which lets us study the effects on jet observables in p-p and nuclear collisions. We also present preliminary results for di hadron correlation studies and show the effects in hadron-jet correlation studies.

Primary authors

Smita Chakraborty (Lund University) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) Gosta Gustafson (Lund University) Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

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