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We study the phenomenon of jet quenching utilizing quark and gluon jet substructures as independent probes of heavy ion collisions. We exploit jet and subjet features to highlight differences between quark and gluon jets in vacuum and in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-12 Yang-Ting Chien , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

We report the first measurement of one- and two-point energy correlators within jets in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV, using the STAR detector at RHIC. These observables quantify the energy-weighted…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-21 The STAR Collaboration

Jets are extended multipartonic systems and serve as a powerful tool for investigating the dynamics of emergent phenomena driven by many body QCD interactions. In heavy ion collisions, starting from their production during the perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-26 Balbeer Singh

A simultaneous measurement of 25 substructure observables is presented using large-radius jets with high transverse momentum from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV. The measurement is carried out on dijet events and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-29 CMS Collaboration

Jets of hadrons produced at high-energy colliders provide experimental access to the dynamics of asymptotically free quarks and gluons and their confinement into hadrons. In this paper, we show that the high energies of the Large Hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-18 Patrick T. Komiske , Ian Moult , Jesse Thaler , Hua Xing Zhu

Hard-scattered partons ejected from high-energy proton-proton collisions undergo parton shower and hadronization, resulting in collimated collections of particles that are clustered into jets. A substructure observable that highlights the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-25 The STAR Collaboration

Jet substructure tools have proven useful in a number of high-energy particle-physics studies. A particular case is the discrimination, or tagging, between a boosted jet originated from an electroweak boson (signal), and a standard QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-26 Davide Napoletano , Gregory Soyez

Jet quenching, the modification of jets by the quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions, provides a sensitive probe of the properties of the medium. A jet-by-jet discrimination study between proton-proton and lead-lead jets using energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 João A. Gonçalves

We present an alternative approach to identifying and characterizing jet substructure. An angular correlation function is introduced that can be used to extract angular and mass scales within a jet without reference to a clustering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Martin Jankowiak , Andrew J. Larkoski

We introduce collinear drop jet substructure observables, which are unaffected by contributions from collinear radiation, and systematically probe soft radiation within jets. These observables can be designed to be either sensitive or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Yang-Ting Chien , Iain W. Stewart

Methodology is presented for analysis of three-particle correlation functions obtained in heavy ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. We show that harmonic correlations can be removed and jet driven correlations reliably extracted.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-24 N. N. Ajitanand , J. M. Alexander , Roy A. Lacey , A. Taranenko

In recent years, the study of dihadron correlations has been one of the primary methods used to investigate the propagation and modification of hard-scattered partons through the QGP. Due to recent advances in jet-finding algorithms, it is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Alice Ohlson

At the extreme energies of the Large Hadron Collider, massive particles can be produced at such high velocities that their hadronic decays are collimated and the resulting jets overlap. Deducing whether the substructure of an observed jet…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-06-01 Pierre Baldi , Kevin Bauer , Clara Eng , Peter Sadowski , Daniel Whiteson

Energy correlators that describe energy-weighted distances between two or three particles in a jet are measured using an event sample of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment and corresponding to an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-08-19 CMS Collaboration

Energy correlators characterize the asymptotic energy flow in scattering events produced at colliders, from which the microscopic physics of the scattering can be deduced. This view of collisions is akin to analyses of the Cosmic Microwave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-23 Ankita Budhraja , Wouter J. Waalewijn

The sensitivity of calorimetric energy-energy correlation function to the medium-induced energy loss of fast partons in high multiplicity heavy ion interactions is demonstrated at the appropriate selection of events for the analysis,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-30 I. P. Lokhtin , L. I. Sarycheva , A. M. Snigirev

We introduce a new jet shape -- N-subjettiness -- designed to identify boosted hadronically-decaying objects like electroweak bosons and top quarks. Combined with a jet invariant mass cut, N-subjettiness is an effective discriminating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Jesse Thaler , Ken Van Tilburg

The continued success of the jet substructure program will require widespread use of tracking information to enable increasingly precise measurements of a broader class of observables. The recent reformulation of jet substructure in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Kyle Lee , Ian Moult , Felix Ringer , Wouter J. Waalewijn

We develop an effective field theory (EFT) framework to perform an analytic calculation for energy correlator observables computed on groomed heavy-quark jets. A soft-drop grooming algorithm is applied to a jet initiated by a massive quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Christopher Lee , Prashant Shrivastava , Varun Vaidya

Energy-energy correlators (EECs) provide a powerful tool to study the evolution of scattered partons into final-state hadrons. In these proceedings, a variety of energy correlator measurements performed by the ALICE collaboration are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-01 Beatrice Liang-Gilman