Frontier Science at the LHC Jets in Nuclear Collisions

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Frontier Science at the LHCJets in Nuclear
Collisions

• Ivan Vitev (and Benwei Zhang), Nuclear Theory,
  T-16 , LANL

ADEPS LDRD DR planning, BSM, October 17, 2007
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The Future of High Energy Nuclear and Particle
Physics
Tevatron

• LHC will begin operation in 2008 and will
  dominate particle and nuclear physics at the high
  energy frontier in the foreseeable future

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LHC
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• LHC is high priority in both the HEP and NP
  programs of the DOE

CDF (f-r view)
NP
HEP
JETS
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• Jets will play the leading role in the planned
  discovery of the Higgs (new), supersymmetry
  (new), and the search for large extra dimensions
  (new).

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(for a HEP perspective see talk by M. Graesser)

• Heavy ion theory at LANL can lead an effort to
  determine the enhancement / suppression of BSM
  jet signals in nucleus-nucleus collisions (new)

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Jets in Nuclear Collisions
Jet Shapes

• Novel effective interactions and novel phenomena
  can arise in matter under extreme conditions
  (part of BSM challenge)

Vacuum

• Opportunity exists to develop and lead the
  theory of jets in nuclear collisions

• predict novel jet shapes (new) and jet
  topologies (new)
• develop radiography of strongly interacting
  plasmas
• (new point) on the EOS
• constrain the new effective interactions via Z0
  (new),
• heavy flavor (new) and ? tagged jets

Medium-induced
Constrain the new effective interactions,
determine the correct theory models
(for an experimental perspective see talk by P.
McGaughey)
The theorists (and experimentalists) at LANL have
a chance today to make a major contribution to
the fundamental physics (theory and simulation)
of Jets within the Standard Model and beyond.
LANL must not miss the opportunity to become a
part of the new golden age in physics
Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize Winner