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Wayne State University

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2014

Heavy Ion Collisions

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Determination Of Jet Transport Parameters And Their Temperature Dependence In Heavy-Ion Collisions, Karen Marie Burke Jan 2014

Determination Of Jet Transport Parameters And Their Temperature Dependence In Heavy-Ion Collisions, Karen Marie Burke

Wayne State University Theses

In the continuing effort to describe properties of the quark-gluon plasma, energy loss is studied through leading order higher twist calculations of high transverse momentum single hadron suppression. Input of several values for the jet transport parameter q ̂ were used at pT ranges of ~5-20 GeV at RHIC and ~10-100 GeV at LHC, with collision centrality of 0-5%. The results of the calculations are then compiled and compared with experimental data to determine the best fit value for q ̂.