Research
I have been working over the past few years on the study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) as part of the ALICE collaboration. This QGP is a state of matter in which quarks (building blocks of hadrons: protons, neutrons, pions, etc ...) and gluons (vector particles of the strong interaction, that binds quarks together) stop being confined in hadrons. This plasma can be attained through high-energy collisions of heavy nuclei.
My analysis focuses on one probe of this QGP: jets, collimated showers of particles radiated by the propagating initial hard scattered partons (quark or gluon) which are created in the initial stage of the high energy lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions that take place at the centre of the ALICE detector at CERN.