What hard probes tell us about the quark-gluon plasma: Theory
arXiv:1404.2327 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2014.09.065
Abstract
In the study of the quark-gluon plasma in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, hard and electromagnetic (EM) processes play an essential role as probes of the properties of the dense medium. They can be used to study a wide range of properties of the dense medium in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, from space-time profiles of the dense matter, bulk transport coefficients to EM responses and the jet transport parameter. I review in this talk these medium properties, how they can be studied through hard and EM probes and the status of recent theoretical and phenomenological investigations.
6 pages, 3 figures, plenary talk at the 6th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2013)