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We construct a theoretical framework to describe the evolution of heavy flavors produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The in-medium energy loss of heavy quarks is described using our modified Langevin equation that incorporates…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-19 Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Steffen A. Bass

Heavy quarks offer an invaluable hard probe of the droplets of quark gluon plasma (QGP) formed in heavy ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC. Given their large mass, they are predominantly produced in hard scattering processes at the earliest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-15 Andrea Beraudo , Jean F. Du Plessis , Daniel Pablos , Krishna Rajagopal

The present article is the followup of {\color{blue} Eur.\ Phys.\ J.\ C {\bf 79}, 761 (2019)}, where we have studied the energy-loss of the heavy quarks traversing through the isotropic collisional hot QCD medium. Since, the exploration of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-24 M. Yousuf Jamal , Bedangadas Mohanty

Partons in heavy-ion collisions interact strongly with the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), and hence have their energy and shower structure modified compared to those in vacuum. Theoretical calculations predict that the radiative energy loss,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-10-19 Diptanil Roy

Measuring the energy loss of energetic jet partons may provide experimental opportunities to constrain the initial nonequilibrium stages in heavy-ion collisions, which requires theoretical predictions for the jet-medium potential. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-05 Alois Altenburger , Kirill Boguslavski , Florian Lindenbauer

Hadrons carrying open heavy flavor, i.e. single charm or bottom quarks, are among the key diagnostic tools available today for the hot and dense state of strongly interacting matter which is produced in collisions of heavy atomic nuclei at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Averbeck

The effect of parton energy loss in cold nuclear matter on the suppression of quarkonia (J/psi, Upsilon) in heavy-ion collisions is investigated, by extrapolating a model based on coherent radiative energy loss recently shown to describe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 François Arleo , Stéphane Peigné

This review examines data from hadron-nucleus collisions, primarily focusing on hard processes like Drell-Yan, heavy flavor and quarkonium production. It highlights observed modifications of particle yields as functions of momentum and…

The suppression of the nuclear modification factor for heavy flavor hadrons is usually attributed to the energy loss of heavy quarks propagating in a QCD plasma. Nevertheless it is puzzling that the suppression is as strong as for light…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-10-21 Alejandro Ayala , Eleazar Cuautle , J. Magnin , Luis Manuel Montano , G. Toledo Sanchez

While experimental observations, such as the mass hierarchy effect, are attributed and analyzed within radiative models, their interpretation crucially depends on collisional energy loss contribution, which is often neglected in such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Bojana Ilic , Magdalena Djordjevic

We investigate top anti-top quark pair production in lead-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider with nucleon-nucleon center of mass energy of 5.5 TeV. Due to the very high temperature and energy density created in heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-02 Lusaka Bhattacharya , Kirtiman Ghosh , Katri Huitu

In July 2025 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collided $^{16}$O$^{16}$O and $^{20}$Ne$^{20}$Ne isotopes in a quest to understand the physics of ultrarelativistic light ion collisions. One of the key motivations for this run is to discover…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-25 Wilke van der Schee , Isobel Kolbé , Govert Nijs , Kumail Ruhani , Ishtiaq Ahmed , Shahin Iqbal

The energy loss of high-p_T partons provides insight into the transport properties of the medium created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Evidence for this energy loss was first experimentally established through observation of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Martin Spousta

This article reviews recent advances in our understanding of the experimental aspects of jet-quenching and correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. Emphasis is put on correlation measurements, namely jet-like…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-07-19 Fuqiang Wang

Jet-matter interaction remains a central question and a theoretical challenge in heavy-ion physics and might become important in high-multiplicity events in proton-proton collisions at LHC energies. Full jet measurement at LHC offer the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 A. G. Agócs , G. G. Barnaföldi , P. Lévai

We provide a detailed analysis of event-shape observables, namely the energy correlation function and jet angularity, for heavy-flavor jets produced in electron-positron collisions, focusing on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) interactions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Prasanna K. Dhani , Oleh Fedkevych , Andrea Ghira

Studies of fully-reconstructed jets in heavy-ion collisions aim at extracting thermodynamical and transport properties of hot and dense QCD matter. Recently, a plethora of new jet substructure observables have been theoretically and…

Lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD), defined on a discrete space time lattice, leads to a spectacular non-perturbative prediction of a new state of matter, called quark-gluon plasma (QGP), at sufficiently high temperatures or equivalently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. V. Gavai

The discovery and characterization of hot and dense QCD matter, known as Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), remains the most international collaborative effort and synergy between theorists and experimentalists in modern nuclear physics to date. The…

Heavy-quark observables in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, like the nuclear modification factor and the elliptic flow, give insight into the mechanisms of high-momentum suppression and low-momentum thermalization of heavy quarks.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Marlene Nahrgang , Jörg Aichelin , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner