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Energetic quarks and gluons traversing a hot and dense quark-gluon plasma deposit energy and momentum into the medium before hadronizing to collimated sprays of particles, known as jets. This energy-momentum deposition is expected to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-03 CMS Collaboration

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

Dilepton production associated with minijets is calculated in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions using the first order approximation of the dilepton fragmentation functions of quarks and gluons. The full QCD evolution of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 K. J. Eskola , Xin-Nian Wang

We review various production mechanisms of photons and small mass dileptons at large transverse momentum in heavy ion collisions at the LHC. Their relevance as a signal for quark-gluon plasma formation is discussed.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Aurenche

We calculate the high energy photon production from the Pb+Pb collisions for different centrality classes at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=2.76 TeV Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energy. The jet energy loss in the jet fragmentation, jet-photon conversion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-16 Yong-Ping Fu , Qin Xi

We calculate the rapidity dependence of leading-order medium dilepton yields resulting from a quark-gluon plasma which has a local time-dependent anisotropy in momentum space. We present a phenomenological model which includes temporal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 Mauricio Martinez , Michael Strickland

We calculate the dilepton production rate from a thermalized quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies. Higher-order QCD corrections are included by using an analytical correction factor $K^{(i)}$, which takes into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 M. G. -H. Mostafa , Cheuk-Yin Wong , Lali Chatterjee , Zhong-Qi Wang

We propose the angular distribution of lepton pairs produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions as a probe of thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma. We focus on dileptons with invariant masses large enough that they are produced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-07 Maurice Coquet , Xiaojian Du , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Soeren Schlichting , Michael Winn

In the established paradigm of jet quenching in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, jets from initial hard parton scatterings are suppressed due to their interaction with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) as they traverse the hot medium, serving…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Peng Jing , Yichao Dang , Yang He , Shanshan Cao , Li Yi , Xin-Nian Wang

Jet-quenching and photon production at high transverse momentum are studied at RHIC energies, together with the correlation between jets and photons. The energy loss of hard partons traversing the hot QGP is evaluated in the AMY formalism,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 G. -Y. Qin , C. Gale , S. Jeon , G. D. Moore , J. Ruppert

We consider the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) quark densities of the proton which are very important ingredients for unpolarized Drell-Yan (DY) lepton pair production. We calculate the TMD sea quark density as a convolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 S. P. Baranov , A. V. Lipatov , N. P. Zotov

High-energy collisions of various nuclei, so called ``Little Bangs'' are observed at various experiments of heavy ion colliders. The time evolution of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma created in heavy ion collisions can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-02-20 Mate Csanad , Levente Krizsan

Recently lots of efforts have been made to obtain the next to leading order and Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal corrections to the thermal dilepton emission rate in perturbative QCD. Here we apply these results to the plasma created in heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-13 Yannis Burnier , Chiara Gastaldi

We study the dijet azimuthal de-correlation in relativistic heavy ion collisions as an important probe of the transverse momentum broadening effects of a high energy jet traversing the quark-gluon plasma. We take into account both the soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-26 A. H. Mueller , Bin Wu , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

Dilepton production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied within the microscopic Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach, which is based on a dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) matched to reproduce lattice QCD…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 O. Linnyk , W. Cassing , E. L. Bratkovskaya , J. Manninen

Back-to-back light and heavy flavor dijet measurements are promising experimental channels to accurately study the physics of jet production and propagation in a dense QCD medium. They can provide new insights into the path length, color…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-22 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jared Reiten , Ivan Vitev , Boram Yoon

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

Dijet, dihadron, hadron-jet angular correlations have been reckoned as important probes of the transverse momentum broadening effects in relativistic nuclear collisions. When a pair of high-energy jets created in hard collisions traverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-11 Lin Chen , Guang-You Qin , Shu-Yi Wei , Bo-Wen Xiao , Han-Zhong Zhang

By employing the Gubser solutions of causal relativistic second-order Israel-Stewart hydrodynamics, we study the thermal dilepton production from heavy-ion collisions, considering the transverse expansion of the viscous hot QCD medium along…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Lakshmi J. Naik , V. Sreekanth

According to the dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) -- matched to reproduce lattice QCD results in thermodynamic limit, -- the constituents of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) are massive and off-shell quasi-particles…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 E. L. Bratkovskaya , O. Linnyk , W. Cassing