Master's Thesis Defense
"Guilherme Calé, a student at FCUL, has defended his master's thesis. The work was developed within the Pheno group. Congratulations to the new Master! "
Last week marked a significant achievement for Guilherme Calé, a student at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) and member of the Pheno group at LIP. Guilherme successfully defended his master thesis, titled 'Particle-Particle and Jet-Jet Angular Correlations at the Parton Level'.
Guilherme’s research, guided by supervisors Grigorios Chachamis and João Pires, was an in-depth exploration of partonic correlations and their manifestation at parton jet level. The study was based on simulations of high-energy collisions for multiple systems (proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus), whose angular correlations were analyzed and compared for two Monte Carlo codes (Pythia and BFKLex). In all of the examined cases, no connection was found between the high-energy QCD dynamics considered (i.e. BFKL evolution) and the enigmatic near-side, long-range correlations observed in data.
The jury for the thesis defense comprised Margarida Cruz (president), Liliana Apolinário (main arguer), and Grigorios Chachamis (as the supervisor representative).
Congratulations Guilherme, for your excellent work!