Author:  Abhijit Majumder, The Ohio State University

Title:   Hard jets as probes of dense soft matter 
           and a possible new effective theory

Abstract:

We will focus on the use of hard jet modification as universal probes of the
properties of the dense soft QCD matter in large nuclei as well as the hot 
matter created in a heavy-ion collision. After a review of the theory 
including the approximation schemes used and the basic phenomenology 
involved, we will discuss some of the successes and failures of this 
program as applied at RHIC and HERA. Time permitting, we will discuss some 
of the new observables that may be accessed at the LHC (as well as a future 
EIC) and outstanding theoretical issues including the construction of a new 
effective field theory of hard jets in soft dense matter.