Effects of hadronic reinteraction on jet fragmentation from small to large systems
Abstract
We investigate the impact of the hadronic phase on jet quenching in nuclear collider experiments, an open question in heavy-ion physics. Previous studies in a simplified setup suggest that hadronic interactions could have significant effects, but a systematic analysis is needed. Using the X-SCAPE event generator with the SMASH afterburner, we study the role of hadronic rescattering on jet fragmentation hadrons. Applying this framework to collisions, we demonstrate that even in small systems with limited particle production, hadronic interactions lead to measurable modifications in final-state hadronic and jet observables by comparing scenarios with and without afterburner rescattering.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.16344,
title = {Effects of hadronic reinteraction on jet fragmentation from small to large systems},
author = {Hendrik Roch and Aaron Angerami and Ritu Arora and Steffen Bass and Yi Chen and Ritoban Datta and Lipei Du and Raymond Ehlers and Hannah Elfner and Rainer J. Fries and Charles Gale and Yayun He and Barbara Jacak and Peter Jacobs and Sangyong Jeon and Yi Ji and Florian Jonas and Lauren Kasper and Michael Kordell and Amit Kumar and Raghav Kunnawalkam-Elayavalli and Joseph Latessa and Yen-Jie Lee and Roy Lemmon and Matt Luzum and Abhijit Majumder and Simon Mak and Andi Mankolli and Christal Martin and Haydar Mehryar and Tanner Mengel and Christine Nattrass and Jaime Norman and Jean-Francois Paquet and Cameron Parker and Joern H. Putschke and Gunther Roland and Bjoern Schenke and Loren Schwiebert and Arjun Sengupta and Chun Shen and Chathuranga Sirimanna and Mayank Singh and Derek Soeder and Ron A. Soltz and Ismail Soudi and Yasuki Tachibana and Julia Velkovska and Gojko Vujanovic and Xin-Nian Wang and Xinag-Yu Wu and Wenbin Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16344},
year = {2026}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings for Hard Probes 2024