An Investigation of 2+1 Correlations

The properties of the quark gluon plasma can be studied by comparing the nature of hard scatters in a vacuum with those in a heavy ion collision. As a scattered parton traverses the medium it interacts strongly and this interaction can be observed by looking at the resulting jet's properties. It is important to control the path length travelled by the parton in order to fully understand the quenching mechanism. In this report a method of constraining path length known as a 2+1 correlation is studied by generating simple models of heavy ion events and building the correlation functions following the denition of the 2 + 1 correlation. There is then discussion on how to remove the background and isolate the jet contributions to obtain useful properties such as jet widths and jet yields.