Open Heavy Flavor and Jets Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

• Grant number: 24/23149-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: March 01, 2025
• End date: May 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Nuclear Physics
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz
• Grantee: Guilherme Felipe Budiski
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 20/04867-2 - High energy physics and instrumentation with the LHC-CERN, AP.ESP

Abstract

The study of open heavy flavor states has long is a very powerful tool to study the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) due its early production time and long lifetime. The correlation of open heavy flavor hadrons with jets allows a less inclusive study of the interaction of heavy flavor quarks with the QGP, bringing important information regarding the medium properties. The goal of this project is to study the correlation of open heavy flavor hadrons to jet phenomenon in relativistic heavy ion collisions using the ALICE data.