Speaker
Souvik Priyam Adhya
Description
Probing the earliest stages of high-energy collisions is essential for understanding the formation and evolution of strongly interacting matter. In this work, we investigate initial-state effects in relativistic collider environments through the interplay of parton energy loss (quenching) and diffraction. These results offer a novel pathway to constrain parton densities, saturation phenomena, and the early-time dynamics of quark–gluon matter in high-energy collisions.