The research project aims to improve Monte Carlo simulations of high-energy nuclear collisions where highly energetic spray of particles, jets, are formed. A particular emphasis is on diffractive processes in which the incoming beam particles stay intact. Accounting for these processes could explain the unexpectely large probability of jet production in collisions where the distance of the colliding beam particles is larger than the range of strong interaction. Such scattering processes have been measured for the first time with the ATLAS detector, which one of the major experiments in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In addition, the research will help to understand the impact of background particles to momentum distributions of the measured jets. The research will be carried out in the QCD theory group at the Department of Physics in the University of Jyväskylä, which is a part of the Centre of Excellence in Quark Matter, and in collaboration with Lund University in Sweden.

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