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Nuclear Physics Seminar- Florian Cougoulic (University of Santiago de Compostela)- Cold nuclear effects on azimuthal decorrelation in heavy-ion collisions

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July 17, 2024
1:00PM - 2:00PM
M2035 Physics Research Building

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2024-07-17 13:00:00 2024-07-17 14:00:00 Nuclear Physics Seminar- Florian Cougoulic (University of Santiago de Compostela)- Cold nuclear effects on azimuthal decorrelation in heavy-ion collisions Dr. Florian CougoulicUniversity of Santiago de Compostela, SpainCold nuclear effects on azimuthal decorrelation in heavy-ion collisionsLocation: M2035 Physics Research Building Abstract: “We propose to study hard processes and bulk nuclear matter on the same footing in heavy-ion collisions using Glauber modelling of heavy nuclei. To exemplify this approach, we calculate the leading-order corrections to azimuthal decorrelation in Drell-Yan and boson-jet processes due to cold nuclear effects. At leading order in both the hard momentum scale and the nuclear size, the impact-parameter dependent cross section is found to factorize for both processes. The factorization formula involves a convolution of the hard cross section with the medium-modified initial state parton distributions, and, for the boson-jet production, the medium-modified jet function.” M2035 Physics Research Building Department of Physics physics@osu.edu America/New_York public

Dr. Florian Cougoulic

University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Cold nuclear effects on azimuthal decorrelation in heavy-ion collisions

Location: M2035 Physics Research Building

 

Abstract: “We propose to study hard processes and bulk nuclear matter on the same footing in heavy-ion collisions using Glauber modelling of heavy nuclei. To exemplify this approach, we calculate the leading-order corrections to azimuthal decorrelation in Drell-Yan and boson-jet processes due to cold nuclear effects. At leading order in both the hard momentum scale and the nuclear size, the impact-parameter dependent cross section is found to factorize for both processes. The factorization formula involves a convolution of the hard cross section with the medium-modified initial state parton distributions, and, for the boson-jet production, the medium-modified jet function.”