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The different modifications of quark- and gluon-initiated jets in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has not yet received a definitive answer from experiments. In particular, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-01 Yueyang Ying , Jasmine Brewer , Yi Chen , Yen-Jie Lee

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

The suppression and modification of high-energy objects, like jets, in heavy-ion collisions provide an important window to access the degrees of freedom of the quark-gluon plasma on different length scales. Despite increasingly precise and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-01 Jasmine Brewer

Measurements of jet substructure describing the composition of quark- and gluon-initiated jets are presented. Proton-proton (pp) collision data at $\sqrt{s}$ =13 TeV collected with the CMS detector are used, corresponding to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-08 CMS Collaboration

Measurements of jet substructure in heavy-ion collisions may provide key insight to the nature of jet quenching in the quark-gluon plasma. Jet grooming techniques from high-energy physics have been applied to heavy-ion collisions in order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-03 James Mulligan , Mateusz Ploskon

High-$p_T$ jets are an important tool for characterizing the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collisions. However, a precise understanding of the jet-medium interaction is still lacking, and the development of more…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-27 Isobel Kolbé

We present a systematic investigation of flavor-dependent jet quenching using energy-energy correlators (EEC) in $\sqrt{\rm s}=5.02$ TeV Pb+Pb collisions. Employing the improved SHELL model, which incorporates collisional and radiative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-23 Shi-Yong Chen , Zi-Xuan Xu , Ke-Ming Shen , Wei Dai , Ben-Wei Zhang , En-Ke Wang

The modification of quark- and gluon-initiated jets in the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has not yet received a definitive answer from experiments. In particular, the size of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Yueyang Ying

Key features of jet-medium interactions in heavy-ion collisions are modifications to the jet structure. Recent results from experiments at the LHC and RHIC have motivated several theoretical calculations and monte carlo models towards…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-10 Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

In the past years significant progress has been made toward achieving a quantitative understanding of jets and their substructure in high-energy proton-proton collisions from first principles in QCD. Precise measurements have become…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 Felix Ringer

Over the past decade, a large number of jet substructure observables have been proposed in the literature, and explored at the LHC experiments. Such observables attempt to utilize the internal structure of jets in order to distinguish those…

We propose a new phenomenological approach to establish QCD factorization of jet cross sections in the heavy-ion environment. Starting from a factorization formalism in proton-proton collisions, we introduce medium modified jet functions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 Jian-Wei Qiu , Felix Ringer , Nobuo Sato , Pia Zurita

Quantum chromodynamics is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks and gluons; the coupling strength of the interaction, $\alpha_S$, is the least precisely-known of all interactions in nature. An extraction of the strong coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-09 Matt LeBlanc , Benjamin Nachman , Christof Sauer

In this work, we investigate possible impacts that the behavior of the Quark-Gluon Plasma might have on Jet Observables. We choose JEWEL (Jet Evolution With Energy Loss) for this study. We have coupled JEWEL with $\rm T_RENTo$ and also with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-28 Fabio Canedo

Being able to distinguish light-quark jets from gluon jets on an event-by-event basis could significantly enhance the reach for many new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider. Through an exhaustive search of existing and novel jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-15 Jason Gallicchio , Matthew D. Schwartz

Reconstructed jets in heavy ion collisions are a crucial tool for understanding the quark-gluon plasma. The separation of jets from the underlying event is necessary particularly in central heavy ion reactions in order to quantify medium…

This paper presents an overview of a survey of jet substructure observables used to study modifications of jets induced by interaction with a Quark Gluon Plasma. We further outline ideas that were presented and discussed at the \textit{New…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-06 Ankita Budhraja , Marco van Leeuwen , José Guilherme Milhano

Jet quenching is considered to be one of the signatures of the formation of quark gluon plasma. In order to investigate the jet quenching, it is necessary to detect jets produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions, determine their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. C. Phatak , P. K. Sahu

Collisions of heavy ion nuclei at relativistic speeds (close to the speed of light) creates a high temperature and very dense form of matter, now known to consist of de-confined quarks and gluons, named the quark gluon plasma (QGP). In this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-03-13 Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Jet measurements in heavy ion collisions at low jet momentum can provide constraints on the properties of the quark gluon plasma but are overwhelmed by a significant, fluctuating background. We build upon our previous work which…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-02-21 Tanner Mengel , Patrick Steffanic , Charles Hughes , Antonio Carlos Oliveira Da Silva , Christine Nattrass