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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 investigate the flavor dependence of jet quenching, by performing a systematic analysis of medium modifications on the inclusive jet, $\gamma$+jet, and $b$-jet in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC. Our results from MadGraph+PYTHIA exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-08 Shan-Liang Zhang , Enke Wang , Hongxi Xing , Ben-Wei Zhang

We review recent progress in the theoretical description of hard probes in heavy-ion collisions within the framework of Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). Firstly, we consider the inclusive production of heavy flavor mesons and jets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-06 Zhong-Bo Kang , Felix Ringer , Ivan Vitev

Jets produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are modified compared to those in proton-proton collisions due to their interaction with the deconfined, strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this work, we employ machine learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-17 Yue Shi Lai , James Mulligan , Mateusz Płoskoń , Felix Ringer

Jet quenching is a phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions arising from jet interactions with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Its study is complicated by the interplay of multiple physics processes that affect jet observables. In addition,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Yilun Wu , Yi Chen , Julia Velkovska

High-energy heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider have evolved from qualitative understanding into precise extraction of the properties of the Quantum Chromodynamics medium at extremely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-03 Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

Jet quenching has long been regarded as one of the key signatures for the formation of quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions. Despite significant efforts, the separate identification of quark and gluon jet quenching has remained as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-19 Shan-Liang Zhang , Jinfeng Liao , Guang-You Qin , Enke Wang , Hongxi Xing

One of the major results from the study of high energy heavy ion collisions is the observation of jet quenching. The suppression of the number of jets observed in heavy ion collisions relative to pp collisions at the same energy scaled by…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Megan Connors

Jet modification in heavy-ion collisions provides microscopic access to the properties of the quark-gluon plasma. However, conventional approaches based on traditional global observables, such as \(R_{AA}\), capture limited information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Leonardo Lima da Silva , Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz

Jet-medium interaction involves two important effects: jet energy loss and medium response. The search for jet-induced medium excitations is one of the hot topics in jet quenching study in relativistic nuclear collisions. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Ao Luo , Ya-Xian Mao , Guang-You Qin , En-Ke Wang , Han-Zhong Zhang

We present a new model for jet quenching from coherent radiation in a brick medium. The jet energy loss is simulated as a perturbative final-state vacuum parton shower followed by a medium-induced shower originating from elastic and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-26 Alexander Lind , Iurii Karpenko , Martin Rohrmoser , Joerg Aichelin , Pol Gossiaux , Klaus Werner

The strong modifications of dijet properties in heavy ion collisions measured by ATLAS and CMS provide important constraints on the dynamical mechanisms underlying jet quenching. In this work, we show that the transport of soft gluons away…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Casalderrey-Solana , J. G. Milhano , U. Wiedemann

High-pt particles produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions constitute a powerful tool to study the medium properties. The energy loss resulting from the propagation of these particles in the produced medium translates into a suppression of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos A. Salgado

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

It was argued recently that loop corrections to tree-level amplitudes are essential in the discussion of the collisional energy loss of energetic partons in the hot quark gluon plasma: Instead of $dE_{\rm coll}^B/dx \sim \alpha^2 T^2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Peshier

Theoretical and experimental advances in understanding light jet production and modification in Pb+Pb reactions at a center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV have been a highlight of the LHC heavy ion program. At the same time, the detailed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-11 Jinrui Huang , Zhong-Bo Kang , Ivan Vitev

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

Jet quenching serves as a key probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. This proceedings presents recent results from RHIC and LHC on jet energy loss, acoplanarity, and the flavour and path-length dependence of Parton…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-08 Nihar Ranjan Sahoo

Jet quenching is the process of color-charged partons losing energy via interactions with quark-gluon plasma droplets created in heavy-ion collisions. The collective expansion of such droplets is well described by viscous hydrodynamics.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-09-21 ATLAS Collaboration

To probe the properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions, a very useful class of observables refers to the propagation of energetic jets. A jet is a collimated spray of particles generated via successive parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-07 Paul Caucal