TITLE: “Probing quark–gluon plasma with jets in heavy-ion collisions”
SPEAKER: Balbeer Sinh (LIP, Portugal)
ABSTRACT: Jets are an excellent probe to understand the dynamics of many-body QCD interactions under extreme conditions such as the one created in heavy ion collisions (HICs) as: (1) they are produced during the initial state hard scattering events, and (2) their evolution from the perturbative production scale to non-perturbative hadronization scale retain imprints of different stages of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) evolution. In this context, energy correlators, measured on jets, have been of great interest due to their increased sensitivity to medium-induced jet dynamics and are potential probes to unravel the emergent phenomena in many-body QCD interactions. In this talk, I will discuss a novel open quantum system EFT based factorized approach that not only separates vacuum and medium-induced jet dynamics to all orders in perturbation theory but also systematically incorporates all emergent scales of jet-medium interaction dynamics. Further, I will also discuss generalized energy correlators that can isolate medium response induced jet dynamics in heavy-ion collisions.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 28th, 2026
TIME: 11:40 am
LOCATION: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room