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We review recent theoretical developments in the study of the structure of jets that are produced in ultra relativistic heavy ion collisions. The core of the review focusses on the dynamics of the parton cascade that is induced by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Yacine Mehtar-Tani

Recent progress in full jet reconstruction in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC makes it a promising tool for the quantitative study of the QCD at high energy density. Measurements in d+Au collisions are important to disentangle initial state…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jan Kapitan

Jet-induced medium excitation is a crucial part of jet interactions with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and has recently been confirmed by experiment for the first time. Based on the AMPT model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Ao Luo , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

Heavy ion collisions at high energies can be used as an interesting way to recreate and study the medium of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We particularly investigate the jets produced in hard binary collisions and their interactions with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-11 Martin Rohrmoser , Krzysztof Kutak , Andreas van Hameren , Wiesław Płaczek , Konrad Tywoniuk

The QCD matter produced in nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has been found to have a very low shear viscosity, which is close to the lower bound allowed by unitarity. The matter has also been found to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Berndt Müller

Energetic jets that traverse the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions serve as excellent probes to study this new state of deconfined QCD matter. Presently, however, our ability to achieve a crisp theoretical interpretation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Daniel Pablos , Alba Soto-Ontoso

We present a short overview of recent progress in the theory of jet quenching in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions, including phenomenological studies of jet quenching at RHIC and the LHC, development in NLO perburbative QCD calculation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Guang-You Qin

Some of the most important probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy ion collisions come from the analysis of how the shape and energy of jets are modified by passage through QGP. We model an ensemble of back-to-back dijets…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Jasmine Brewer , Krishna Rajagopal , Andrey Sadofyev , Wilke van der Schee

We calculate the leading corrections to jet momentum broadening and medium-induced branching that arise from the velocity of the moving medium at first order in opacity. These results advance our knowledge of jet quenching and demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-24 Andrey V. Sadofyev , Matthew D. Sievert , Ivan Vitev

In these proceedings we report recent progress on understanding hadron and jet production in electron-nucleus collisions at the future Electron-Ion Collider [1,2]. These processes will play an essential role in the exploration of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-07 Hai Tao Li , Ze Long Liu , Ivan Vitev

We study the evolution of full jet shower in quark-gluon plasma via solving a set of coupled differential transport equations for the three-dimensional momentum distributions of quarks and gluons contained in the full jets. In our jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-10 Ning-Bo Chang , Guang-You Qin

Jets are collimated sprays of particles resulting from fragmentation of hard scattered partons. They are measured in different types of collisions at different energies to test perturbative Quantum Chromodynamic calculations and are used to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Michal Vajzer

Jets serve as an important tool to probe QCD both in the vacuum and in the hot and dense medium. The STAR experiment at RHIC plays a key role in studying QCD phenomena across different collision systems ($p$+$p$, $p$+A, A+A), offering…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-01 Michal Svoboda

The medium modification of jet substructure in hot and dense nuclear matter has garnered significant interest from the heavy-ion physics community in recent years. Measurements of inclusive jets show an angular narrowing in nucleus-nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-22 Sa Wang , Yao Li , Jin-Wen Kang , Ben-Wei Zhang

Based on a pQCD inspired dynamical model of jet-medium interactions, Jewel, we have studied possible modifications to inclusive jet yields and a set of jet shape observables, namely, the fragmentation functions and radial momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-25 Rathijit Biswas , Subikash Choudhury , Sidharth Kumar Prasad , Supriya Das

Two-dimensional (2D) jet tomography is a promising tool to study jet medium modification in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. It combines gradient (transverse) and longitudinal jet tomography for selection of events with localized initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-02 Yu-Xin Xiao , Yayun He , Long-Gang Pang , Hanzhong Zhang , Xin-Nian Wang

Within perturbative QCD, we develop a new picture for the parton shower generated by a jet propagating through a dense quark-gluon plasma. This picture combines in a simple, factorised, way multiple medium-induced parton branchings and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Paul Caucal , Edmond Iancu , Gregory Soyez

Recently, it has been demonstrated that the chemical composition of jets in heavy ion collisions is significantly altered compared to jets in the vacuum. This signal can be used to probe the medium formed in nuclear collisions. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Liu , R. J. Fries

In this work, we expand the scope of the JETSCAPE framework to investigate the dependence of the jet nuclear modification factor, ${R_{AA}}$, on the jet radius parameter ($R$) for broader area jet cones, going all the way up to $R$ = 1.0.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-03 Manaswini Priyadarshini , Om Shahi , Vaishnavi Sathe , Prabhakar Palni

Jets and their substructure in pp collisions offer a unique opportunity to probe various aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), ranging from perturbative QCD (pQCD) tests to studies of non-perturbative phenomena such as hadronization.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-02-14 Haidar Mas'ud Alfanda