Ben Nachman (SLAC) "Measuring and Exploiting the Quantum Properties of Jets with the ATLAS Detector"

Abstract:
Quarks and gluons hadronize before their properties can be directly measured.  However, information about the origin, electric charge, and color charge of high energy quarks and gluons is embedded in the resulting collimated sprays of hadrons known as jets.  This information defines the quantum properties of jets: the observable consequences of the quantum properties of quarks and gluons on the jets they form.  Such properties are often subtle, but the ATLAS collaboration has recently demonstrated that even the electric and color charge can be extracted with high precision.  These measurements have important implications for probing the emergent properties of the strong force at the highest available energies and for searching for physics beyond the Standard Model.