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Recently it has become apparent that event-by-event fluctuations in the initial state of hydrodynamical modelling of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are crucial in order to understand the full centrality dependence of the elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Thorsten Renk , Hannu Holopainen , Jussi Auvinen , Kari J. Eskola

Jet energy loss in heavy ion collisions, as quantified by the traditional observable of high $p_T$ hadron's nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$, provides highly informative "imaging" of the hot medium created in heavy ion collisions. There…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Shuzhe Shi , Jiechen Xu , Jinfeng Liao , Miklos Gyulassy

Jet suppression in high-energy heavy-ion collisions results from jet energy loss and transverse-momentum broadening during jet propagation through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The jet cone size ($R$) dependence of this suppression offers…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Qing-Fei Han , Man Xie , Han-Zhong Zhang

The computation of hard processes in hadronic collisions is a major success of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. The environment of heavy-ion collisions offers the opportunity to embed such hard processes into a soft medium which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-08-14 Thorsten Renk

Jet quenching provides a very flexible variety of observables which are sensitive to different energy- and time-scales of the strongly interacting matter created in heavy-ion collisions. Exploiting this versatility would make jet quenching…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-02 Carlota Andres , Néstor Armesto , Harri Niemi , Risto Paatelainen , Carlos A. Salgado

When an energetic parton traversing the QCD medium, it may suffer multiple scatterings and lose energy. This jet quenching phenomenon may lead to the suppression of leading hadron productions as well as medium modifications of full jet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Ben-Wei Zhang , Guo-Yang Ma , Wei Dai , Sa Wang , Shan-Liang Zhang

The STAR Collaboration presents measurements of the semi-inclusive distribution of charged-particle jets recoiling from energetic direct-photon ($\gamma_{\rm dir}$) and neutral-pion ($\pi^{0}$) triggers in p+p and central Au+Au collisions…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-01-31 STAR Collaboration

We calculate and compare bremsstrahlung and collisional energy loss of hard partons traversing a quark-gluon plasma. Our treatment of both processes is complete at leading order in the coupling and accounts for the probabilistic nature of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Guang-You Qin , Jorg Ruppert , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Guy D. Moore , Munshi G. Mustafa

Jet suppression and modification is a hallmark feature of heavy-ion collisions. This can be attributed to an accumulated set of effects, including radiative and elastic energy loss and reabsorption of thermalized energy within the jet cone,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexandre Falcão , Konrad Tywoniuk

In this work, we perform computations of inclusive jet, and semi-inclusive jet-hadron cross sections for minimum bias oxygen-oxygen collisions at RHIC and LHC collision energies. We compute the no-quenching baseline for the jet nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 Jannis Gebhard , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Adam Takacs

Recent measurements of jet structure modifications at RHIC and LHC highlight the importance of differential measurements to study the nature of jet quenching. Since these jet structure observables are intimately dependent on parton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-29 Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Results are presented from a phenomenological analysis of recent measurements of jet suppression and modifications of jet fragmentation functions in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC. Particular emphasis is placed on the impact of the differences…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-06 Martin Spousta , Brian Cole

The quenching of jets (particles with $p_T>>T, \Lambda_{QCD}$) in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions has been one of the main prediction and discovery at RHIC. We have studied, by a simple jet quenching modeling, the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-14 F. Scardina , M. Di Toro , V. Greco

We construct a measure of transverse momentum loss of jets in nuclear collisions at LHC directly using measurements of jet cross sections in PbPb and pp collisions. The proposal is shown to be equivalent to R_AA and is equally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Sourendu Gupta , Rishi Sharma

Nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ for large $p_T$ single hadron is studied in a next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) parton model with medium-modified fragmentation functions (mFFs) due to jet quenching in high-energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Zhi-Quan Liu , Hanzhong Zhang , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

The central goal of jet quenching studies in high-energy nuclear collisions is the characterization of those QCD medium properties that are accessible by these probes. Most of the discussion in the last years has been focused on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-02 Carlota Andrés , Néstor Armesto , Matthew Luzum , Carlos A. Salgado , Pía Zurita

The striking suppression and modification patterns that are observed in jet observables measured in heavy-ion collisions with respect to the proton-proton baseline have the potential to constrain the spatio-temporal branching process of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-16 Konrad Tywoniuk , Yacine Mehtar-Tani

It is a continued open question how there can be an azimuthal anisotropy of high $p_\perp$ particles quantified by a sizable $v_2$ in p+Pb collisions when, at the same time, the nuclear modification factor $R_\text{AA}$ is consistent with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Chiara Le Roux , José Guilherme Milhano , Korinna Zapp

The ratios of $p/\pi$ at large transverse momentum in central $Au+Au$ collisions at RHIC are studied in the framework of jet quenching based on a next-to-leading order pQCD parton model. It is shown that theoretical calculations with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-08 Xiaofang Chen , Hanzhong Zhang , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

Jet quenching provides a valuable measure of the opacity of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. However, substantial suppression of charged hadron spectra is observed in highly peripheral collisions,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Changle Sun , Yichao Dang , Shanshan Cao