Paper Published as PRL Editor's Suggestion!
September 30, 2024
A paper I recently wrote which found effects that normally happen in heavy ion collisions in an expected collision system has been published in Physics Review Letters as an editor's suggestion! In the study, we applied techniques that are normally used to study the properties of the expanding quark-gluon plasma fireball created in heavy ion collisions to study collimated sprays of particles known as jets. Surprisingly, when we required many particles to be inside the jet, we saw similar effects, despite these jets being produced in much smaller proton-proton collisions. Although QGP-like effects have already been known to occur in proton-proton collisions, this is the first time they have been measured for an individual jet. The jets that show this effects are exceptionally rare - we have to run the Large Hadron Collider for about an hours just to record one of the jets having the largest number of particles studied in this analysis!
The full published result can be found here.
