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[Megan Connors <meganeconnors AT gmail.com>]

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce that the workshop titled “Probing quark-gluon matter with jets”  will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, July 23-25,  2018, followed by a less intense program-type workshop from July 26 to August 3.

Observables involving QCD jets have proven to be effective in probing the hot nuclear medium created in heavy ion collisions. In the last decade important theoretical and experimental advances have been achieved towards understanding jet evolution in QCD media, stimulated by jet measurements at RHIC and LHC.

Novel substructure techniques that were developed recently within the high-energy physics community have also drawn much attention in the context of heavy ion collisions and are currently being investigated. While the latter efforts are mainly attempting to describe final-state interactions, jets in electron-ion collisions constitute comprehensive tools for probing the nuclear structure.

The workshop aims at bringing together leading experts form the heavy ion and high energy physics communities, both theorists and experimentalists, to review the latest progress in jet physics in the various subfields, share their respective expertise and discuss the related technical challenges. The goal is to provide a platform to assess the new jet observables whose scope is probing quark-gluon matter.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Jet quenching in heavy ion collisions and small systems

• Jets in eA collisions   

• Jet substructure

• Monte Carlo implementations

The workshop website is open for registration: https://www.bnl.gov/pqgm2018/

There will be funds available for local support for a limited number of participants, which can be applied for through the registration.

If you wish to attend the post workshop program please email Dorothy Davis  Dorothyd AT bnl.gov, our workshop coordinator.

The general deadline for registration is July 23,  however if you plan to use on-site accommodations you must complete an additional Guest Information System (GIS) form by July 9, 2018 and be approved in GIS.

Further information can be found on the workshop website. It you have any question do not hesitate to contact us.

We hope you will be interested in attending and we look forward to your participation.

Organizing committee :

Megan Connors  (mconnors AT bnl.gov)

Yacine Mehtar-Tani (ymehtar AT uw.edu)

Brian Page (bpage AT bnl.gov)

Felix Ringer (fmringer AT lbl.gov )

Konrad Tywoniuk (konrad.tywoniuk AT cern.ch)

Marta Verweij (verweij AT bnl.gov)