Three models for charged hadron nuclear modification from light to heavy ions
Nuclear Theory
2025-09-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
In July 2025 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collided OO and NeNe isotopes in a quest to understand the physics of ultrarelativistic light ion collisions. One of the key motivations for this run is to discover partonic energy loss in systems with a small quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this letter we combine a BDMPS-Z based model, a path-length based energy loss prescription, and JEWEL together with two realistic geometries of the O and Ne isotopes. The different sizes of the ions affect the energy loss in characteristically different ways depending on the model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2509.04299,
title = {Three models for charged hadron nuclear modification from light to heavy ions},
author = {Wilke van der Schee and Isobel Kolbé and Govert Nijs and Kumail Ruhani and Ishtiaq Ahmed and Shahin Iqbal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.04299},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures, comments welcome