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The jet shape is a classic jet substructure observable that probes the average transverse energy profile inside a reconstructed jet. The studies of jet shapes in proton-proton collisions have served as precision tests of perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Yang-Ting Chien , Ivan Vitev

We review selected results from a recent in-depth study of jet shapes and jet cross sections in ultra-relativistic reactions with heavy nuclei at the LHC arXiv:0810.2807 [hep-ph]. We demonstrate that at the highest collider energies these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 Ivan Vitev , Ben-Wei Zhang , Simon Wicks

Jet vetoes are a prominent part of the signal selection in various analyses at the LHC. We discuss jet vetoes for which the transverse momentum of a jet is weighted by a smooth function of the jet rapidity. With a suitable choice of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-25 Shireen Gangal , Maximilian Stahlhofen , Frank J. Tackmann

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

In heavy-ion collisions, nuclear matter is subjected to extreme conditions in a highly dynamical, rapidly evolving environment. This poses a tremendous challenge for calculating jet quenching observables. Current approaches rely on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Souvik Priyam Adhya , Konrad Tywoniuk

We consider the class of jet shapes known as angularities in dijet production at hadron colliders. These angularities are modified from the original definitions in e+e- collisions to be boost invariant along the beam axis. These shapes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 Andrew Hornig , Yiannis Makris , Thomas Mehen

Central jet vetoes are powerful tools for reducing QCD background in measurements and searches for electroweak and colorless, new physics processes in hadron collisions. In this letter, we report the key findings of a new philosophy to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-28 Silvia Pascoli , Richard Ruiz , Cedric Weiland

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

We demonstrate that jet observables are highly sensitive to the characteristics of the vacuum and the in-medium QCD parton showers and propose techniques that exploit this sensitivity to constrain the mechanism of quark and gluon energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-08 Ivan Vitev , Ben-Wei Zhang

Jet shapes are weighted sums over the four-momenta of the constituents of a jet and reveal details of its internal structure, potentially allowing discrimination of its partonic origin. In this work we make predictions for quark and gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-06 Stephen D. Ellis , Andrew Hornig , Christopher Lee , Christopher K. Vermilion , Jonathan R. Walsh

The $N$-jettiness observable $\mathcal{T}_N$ provides a way of describing the leading singular behavior of the $N$-jet cross section in the $\tau =\mathcal{T}_N/Q \to 0$ limit, where $Q$ is a hard interaction scale. We consider subleading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Ian Moult , Lorena Rothen , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Hua Xing Zhu

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

Medium effects on the production of high-$p_{\rm T}$ particles in nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions are generally quantified by the nuclear modification factor ($R_{\rm AA}$), defined to be unity in absence of nuclear effects. Modeling…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-06-08 Constantin Loizides , Andreas Morsch

Jet quenching in the matter created in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions provides a tomographic tool to probe the medium properties. Recent experimental results on jet production at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-18 K. Filimonov

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 review recent developments in the QCD description of jet production and modification in reactions with heavy nuclei at relativistic energies. Our goal is to formulate a perturbative expansion in the presence of nuclear matter that allows…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-27 I. Vitev

This paper presents a phenomenological study on the angle between the Standard and the Winner-Take-All (WTA) jet axes ($\Delta R_{{\rm axis}}^{{\rm WTA-Std}}$) in high-energy nuclear collisions. The $p$+$p$ baseline is provided by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-15 Jin-Wen Kang , Sa Wang , Lei Wang , Ben-Wei Zhang

We compute medium corrections to the energy-energy correlator (EEC) for jets in electron-nucleus collisions at leading order in the QCD coupling and the interaction of the jet with the medium. We derive an analytical expression for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Yu Fu , Berndt Müller , Chathuranga Sirimanna

Jet physics in relativistic heavy ion collisions, which combines perturbative QCD jet production with quark and gluon energy loss and in-medium parton shower modification, has emerged as a powerful tool to probe the properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-24 Ben-Wei Zhang , Yuncun He , R. B. Neufeld , Ivan Vitev , Enke Wang

We develop the first event generator, the electron-Heavy-Ion-Jet-INteraction-Generator (eHIJING), for the jet tomography study of electron-ion collisions. In this generator, energetic jet partons produced from the initial hard scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-21 Weiyao Ke , Yuan-Yuan Zhang , Hongxi Xing , Xin-Nian Wang