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We discuss the transverse momentum distribution of thermal and prompt photons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. The prompt photons are mostly produced by fragmentation of quark jets (bremsstrahlung). If these quark jets suffer a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian Dumitru , Nils Hammon

With the QGP opacity computed perturbatively and with the global entropy constraints imposed by the observed dNch/dy~1000, radiative energy loss alone cannot account for the observed suppression of single non-photonic electrons. Collisional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Simon Wicks , Miklos Gyulassy

In high energy nuclear collisions the leading parton of a jet can change flavor through interactions with the surrounding medium. This can considerably boost the relative yield of rare high momentum particles, like strange quarks and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-05-27 W. Liu , R. J Fries

The suppression of hadron production originated from the induced jet energy loss is one of the most accepted and well understood phenomena in heavy ion collisions, which indicates the formation of color deconfined matter consists of quarks,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-26 Peter Levai

The nuclear modification factor $R_\mathrm{AA}$ of charm jets, identified by the presence of a D$^0$ meson among the jet constituents, has been measured for the first time in Pb-Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-09-19 ALICE Collaboration

Jet quenching serves as a key probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. This proceedings presents recent results from RHIC and LHC on jet energy loss, acoplanarity, and the flavour and path-length dependence of Parton…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-08 Nihar Ranjan Sahoo

High-energy heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider have evolved from qualitative understanding into precise extraction of the properties of the Quantum Chromodynamics medium at extremely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-03 Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

Jet quenching studies play a prominent role in our current understanding of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. In this review I first present the available formalism to compute medium-induced gluon radiation. Then I discuss its effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Armesto

We present a theoretical formalism for calculating first-order-in-opacity radiative energy loss that incorporates the spatial and temporal temperature evolution of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in a finite-size QCD medium with dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Bithika Karmakar , Magdalena Djordjevic

We give a theoretical overview of the heavy quark tomography puzzle posed by recent non-photonic single electron data from central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ AGeV. We show that radiative energy loss mechanisms alone are not able…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Magdalena Djordjevic

Some of the open questions on jet quenching are expected to be clarified by measuring heavy-flavored mesons at high transverse momentum. The formalism based on radiative in-medium energy-loss, which describes other high-pt results at RHIC,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos A. Salgado

Predictions for some experimental physical observables in nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC energies are presented. I utilize the previous suggestion that the retarded, by time about 2-3 fm/c, jet absorption in opaque core is a natural…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-04-29 V. S. Pantuev

Two-particle correlations obtained from parton showers that pass the hot and dense medium of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) can be used as an alternative observable, in addition to the combination of the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Martin Rohrmoser , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Thierry Gousset , Jörg Aichelin

Jets are multi-partonic systems that develop before interactions with the quark-gluon plasma set in and lead to energy loss and modifications of their substructure. Jet modification depends on the degree to which the medium can resolve the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-29 Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Daniel Pablos , Konrad Tywoniuk

Jet suppression is considered to be an excellent probe of QCD matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Our theoretical predictions of jet suppression, which are based on our recently developed dynamical energy loss…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-05 Bojana Blagojevic , Magdalena Djordjevic

Reconstructed jets in heavy ion collisions are a crucial tool for understanding the quark-gluon plasma. The separation of jets from the underlying event is necessary particularly in central heavy ion reactions in order to quantify medium…

The phenomenon of jet quenching provides essential information about the properties of hot and dense matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Recent results from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) show evidence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-21 Florian Senzel , Jan Uphoff , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

Heavy quark energy loss in a hot QCD plasma is computed taking into account the competing effects due to suppression of zeroth order gluon radiation bellow the plasma frequency and the enhancement of gluon radiation due to transition energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Magdalena Djordjevic , Miklos Gyulassy

Reliable predictions for jet quenching in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions require accurate computation of radiative energy loss. With this goal, an energy loss formalism in a realistic finite size dynamical QCD medium was recently…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Magdalena Djordjevic , Marko Djordjevic

Recent data on the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ of jet fragments in 2.76 ATeV Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) indicate that the jet-medium coupling in a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is reduced at LHC energies and not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Barbara Betz , Miklos Gyulassy