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Yasuo MIAKE, Univ. of Tsukuba
Jet quenching
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Parton energy loss in dense
matter
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Analogous to EM energy
loss of charged particles in
matter
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Dominated by gluon
radiation in QCD
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Hard processes/probes are
from the earliest stage of
the collision
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Could be a good probe of
QGP formation