Calibrating jet imaging of qcd collectivity

Abstract

Over the last decades, heavy ions collisions experiments at CERN and BNL have offered an unique window to study QCD under hot and dense conditions. In such high energy events a new state of matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma, is formed and a big effort has been made towards exploring its properties, which are intimately related to the origins of the Universe and the fundamental nature of ordinary matter. This thesis is embedded in the effort towards a higher precision and improved physical description of high energy QCD processes relevant for heavy ion physics. In a first section, we explore a novel analytic treatment of in-medium single parton evolution, the key theoretical tool of jet quenching. In a second chapter, we propose a novel strategy to simulate high energy scattering processes using a digital quantum computer. Finally, we lay the first stones for the simulation of a full medium induced parton cascade using quantum simulation techniques.