Rutgers University Astrophysics Colloquium

Collider experiments have proven themselves immensely useful in studying the behavior of fundamental particles such as quarks and gluons. The last few years in particular have seen a push towards an exploration of QCD, that has hitherto been inaccessible, via innovative experimental techniques to access the multi-scale parton evolution and eventually even shed light on hadronization mechanisms. In this talk, I start with a pedagogical overview of jets and their structure and highlight recent measurements from experiments at both RHIC and LHC. In the context of heavy ion collisions, jets have been advertised for the past two decades as a useful tool for quark-gluon plasma (QGP) tomography. This quest has had its fair share of roadblocks but I share the community's roadmap to the next-generation of measurements with the sPHENIX detector at RHIC, that have untapped potential to extract of the QGP's microscopic transport properties and in mapping its space-time evolution. Finally, I cover the impact of the upcoming Electron Ion Collider where these novel techniques and experimental precision lead to imaging both the perturbative and non-perturbative QCD regimes, allowing us unprecedented access into color confinement and hadronization.