Yesterday, Guilherme Crispim, master’s student at the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon and member of the Pheno group at LIP, successfully defended his master thesis, entitled “Pre-equilibrium of the Quark-Gluon Plasma”.
This study was focused on the pre-thermal equilibrium stage of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at LHC and RHIC. Guilherme investigated the sensitivity of jets to this extremely short-lived phase by simulating various QGP models and analysing the response of particle angular distributions to quenching effects. The findings presented in this thesis suggest that, with sufficient data, it will be possible to discriminate between different pre-equilibrium models at future high-energy colliders like FCC-hh.
Guilherme’s work was supervised by Liliana Apolinário and Ruben Conceição. The jury for the thesis defense comprised Mário Pimenta (president), Pablo Guerrero (main arguer), and Liliana Apolinário (as the supervisor representative).
Congratulations to Guilherme!