Seminar on May 18, 2005


Title: Parton Recombination at High p_T in Heavy Ion Collisions

Speaker:  Rudolph C. Hwa, University of Oregon

Abstract:

The study of the hadronization problem in heavy-ion collisions is first 
motivated as a necessary first step in the investigation of the properties
of the hot and dense medium created.  The traditional fragmentation model
for the hadronization of high p_T partons has serious problems, all of
which can be resolved by the consideration of parton recombination. In the
framework of the recombination of the shower partons produced in jets, the 
correlation between hadrons at intermediate p_T will be discussed and the 
results compared to the data obtained by the STAR experiment at RHIC.