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This article presents new measurements of the fragmentation properties of jets in both proton-proton (pp) and heavy-ion collisions with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. We report distributions of the fraction $z_r$ of transverse momentum…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-06-22 ALICE Collaboration

A selection of new jet substructure measurements are reported from the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC in both proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions. These include the first fully corrected inclusive measurements of the groomed jet…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-16 Robert Vertesi

We present the first application of a recently-developed effective theory of jet propagation in matter SCETG to inclusive hadron suppression in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC. SCETG-based splitting kernels allow us to go beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-09 Zhong-Bo Kang , Robin Lashof-Regas , Grigory Ovanesyan , Philip Saad , Ivan Vitev

Hadronic event shapes, that is, event shapes at hadron colliders, could provide a great way to test both standard and non-standard theoretical models. However, they are significantly more complicated than event shapes at e+e- colliders,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-28 Randall Kelley , Matthew D. Schwartz

The two-prong structure related to the leading subjets inside a reconstructed jet opens new avenues toward precision constraints on the in-medium modification of parton showers. In this talk, we present the first resummed calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-11 Hai Tao Li , Ivan Vitev

Jet reconstruction and jet fragmentation variables provide important information to study the interaction between hard scattered partons and the Quark-Gluon Plasma. This paper presents the measurement of the inclusive cross section for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Rongrong Ma

Jets and their substructure play a central role in many analyses at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). To improve the precision of measurements, as well as to enable measurement of jet substructure at increasingly small angular scales,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Hao Chen , Max Jaarsma , Yibei Li , Ian Moult , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Hua Xing Zhu

I develop an Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework to compute jet substructure observables for heavy ion collision experiments. As an illustration, I consider dijet events that accompany the formation of a weakly coupled Quark Gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Varun Vaidya

The study of hadronic jets and their substructure at hadronic colliders is crucial for improving our understanding of QCD, and searching for new physics. As such, there has been a significant effort to improve their theoretical description.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Terry Generet , Kyle Lee , Ian Moult , Rene Poncelet , Xiaoyuan Zhang

In this paper, we explore the use of jet substructure as a way of probing phenomena which break the isotropic behavior of jets, such as jet propagation through an anisotropically flowing quark-gluon plasma or spin correlations. We introduce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-18 Weiyao Ke , John Terry , Ivan Vitev

We introduce a broad class of fractal jet observables that recursively probe the collective properties of hadrons produced in jet fragmentation. To describe these collinear-unsafe observables, we generalize the formalism of fragmentation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Benjamin T. Elder , Massimiliano Procura , Jesse Thaler , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Kevin Zhou

Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) is an effective field theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) for processes where there are energetic, nearly lightlike degrees of freedom interacting with one another via soft radiation. SCET has found…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Christopher Lee

Jets are collimated clusters of particles formed by the hadronization of partons following a hard interaction. In proton-proton ($pp$) collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), jet production is dominated by $gg$ and $qg$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-31 The STAR Collaboration

In this plenary talk I discuss soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) as a framework for precision QCD phenomenology. Emphasis is placed on jet and heavy flavor observables accessible at current and future collider facilities. One of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-30 Ivan Vitev

The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of differential jet shapes and semi-inclusive jet fragmentation functions in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=$ 200 GeV with the STAR detector at RHIC. Jet shapes, which represent the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-12 Saehanseul Oh

Discriminating between quark- and gluon-initiated jets has long been a central focus of jet substructure, leading to the introduction of numerous observables and calculations to high perturbative accuracy. At the same time, there have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Samuel Bright-Thonney , Ian Moult , Benjamin Nachman , Stefan Prestel

Factorization theorems for single inclusive jet production play a crucial role in the study of jets and their substructure. In the case of small radius jets, the dynamics of the jet clustering can be factorized from both the hard production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Kyle Lee , Ian Moult , Xiaoyuan Zhang

Grooming techniques, such as soft drop, play a central role in reducing sensitivity of jets to e.g. underlying event and hadronization at current collider experiments. The momentum sharing fraction $z_g$, of the two branches in a jet that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Pedro Cal , Kyle Lee , Felix Ringer , Wouter J. Waalewijn

In the framework of soft-collinear effective theory with Glauber gluons, results and predictions for inclusive hadron suppression, based upon in-medium parton shower evolution, are presented for Au+Au and Pb+Pb collisions at RHIC and LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Ivan Vitev

We consider the fragmentation of a parton into a jet with small radius $R$ in the large $z$ limit, where $z$ is the ratio of the jet energy to the mother parton energy. In this region of phase space, large logarithms of both $R$ and $1-z$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-12 Lin Dai , Chul Kim , Adam K. Leibovich