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Jet charge characterizes the electric charge distribution inside a jet. In this talk we make the first theoretical study of jet charge in high-energy nuclear collisions and calculate numerically the medium alternations of jet charge due to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-13 Shi-Yong Chen , Ben-Wei Zhang , En-Ke Wang

The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is an exotic phase of matter, composed of deconfined quarks and gluons and is briefly created in heavy-ion collisions (HIC) at the LHC and at the RHIC. High-energy, self-collimated structures of final-state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-10 Eamonn Weitz

We develop an Effective Field Theory approach for jet observables in heavy-ion collisions, where the jet is treated as an open quantum system interacting with a hot and dense QCD medium. Within this framework, we derive a novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-11 Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Felix Ringer , Balbeer Singh , Varun Vaidya

The suppression of the yield of high transverse momentum $p_{T}$ hadrons in heavy-ion collisions, referred to as "jet-quenching", has now developed into a comprehensive science. Jets are now used as probes of a variety of properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Abhijit Majumder

The angular structure of collisional and radiative energy losses of a hard parton jet propagating through the quark-gluon plasma is analyzed. The possibility to observe the energy losses of quark- and gluon-initiated jets in dense…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 I. P. Lokhtin

Understanding the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that is produced in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions has been one of the top priorities of the heavy ion program at the LHC. Energetic jets are produced and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Yang-Ting Chien

We study multiple scatterings of jets on constituents of quark gluon plasma and introduce energy--energy correlations to quantify their effects. The effects from a longitudinally expanding plasma on medium as well as high energy jets are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Jicai Pan , Charles Gale

Over the past 30 years, jet observables have proven to provide important information about the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. I review the challenges, results, and open problems of jet physics in heavy-ion collisions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-20 Barbara Betz

Jet production and jet substructure in reactions with nuclei at future electron-ion colliders will play a preeminent role in the exploration of nuclear structure and the evolution of parton showers in strongly-interacting matter. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 Hai Tao Li , Ivan Vitev

The jet quenching phenomenon in heavy ion collisions provides a strong evidence of the modification of parton shower in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Jet substructure observables can probe various aspects of the jet formation mechanism.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-22 Yang-Ting Chien

The medium-modifications of processes characterized by the presence of a hard scale provide the most diverse tools to characterize the properties of the matter created in high-energy nuclear collisions. Indeed, jet quenching, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Carlos A. Salgado

Parton propagation in dense nuclear matter results in elastic, inelastic and coherent multiple soft scattering with the in-medium color charges. Such scattering leads to calculable modifications of the hadron production cross section that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ivan Vitev

I summarize the recent advances in jet tomographic studies of cold and hot nuclear matter based on perturbative QCD calculations of medium-induced gluon bremsstrahlung. Quantitative applications to ultrarelativistic heavy ion reactions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ivan Vitev

We study the fragmentation function of jets propagating through a dense quark-gluon plasma within perturbative QCD. Our results for its nuclear modification factor are in qualitative agreement with the experimental data in Pb+Pb collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 Paul Caucal , Edmond Iancu , Alfred H. Mueller , Gregory Soyez

The modification of jets by interaction with the Quark Gluon Plasma has been extensively established through the comparison of observables computed for samples of jets produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions and proton-proton collisions. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-17 Miguel Crispim Romão , João Arruda Gonçalves , José Guilherme Milhano

Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are a window of opportunity to study QCD matter under extreme conditions of temperature and density, such as the quark-gluon plasma. Among the several possibilities, the study of jet quenching -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-26 Liliana Apolinário , Néstor Armesto , Guilherme Milhano , Carlos A. Salgado

Jet quenching in high-energy heavy-ion collisions can be used to probe properties of hot and dense quark-gluon plasma. We provide a brief introduction to the concept and framework for the study of jet quenching. Different approaches and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 Guang-You Qin , Xin-Nian Wang

Recent experimental advances at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the large center-of-mass energies available to the heavy-ion program at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will enable strongly interacting matter at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 R. B. Neufeld

We present a comprehensive review of the physics of hadron and jet production at large transverse momentum in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. Emphasis is put on experimental and theoretical "jet quenching" observables that provide…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-13 David d'Enterria

Jet quenching has been one of the most important indicators that ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions produce a deconfined state of quarks and gluons, known as the Quark-Gluon Plasma. While the quenching of jets traditionally refers to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-01-04 Jaime Norman