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Jet quenching in heavy ion collisions is expected to be accompanied by recoil effects, but unambiguous signals for the induced medium response have been difficult to identify so far. Here, we argue that modern jet substructure measurements…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-01 José Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann , Korinna Christine Zapp

We perform an analysis of jet quenching in heavy and light ion collisions for scenarios without and with quark-gluon plasma formation in $pp$ collisions. We find that the results for these scenarios are very similar, and both of them are in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-08 B. G. Zakharov

A new model of jet quenching in nuclear collisions, CUJET3.0, is constructed by generalizing the perturbative QCD based CUJET2.0 model to include two complementary non-perturbative features of the QCD confinement cross-over phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-15 Jiechen Xu , Jinfeng Liao , Miklos Gyulassy

Artificial intelligence offers the potential to automate challenging data-processing tasks in collider physics. To establish its prospects, we explore to what extent deep learning with convolutional neural networks can discriminate quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-06 Patrick T. Komiske , Eric M. Metodiev , Matthew D. Schwartz

Hard processes in collider experiments typically produce QCD jets, which have long served as precision tests of QCD in the vacuum. More recently, heavy-ion programs at RHIC and the LHC have offered a novel perspective on jets, establishing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-01 Yacine Mehtar-Tani

In these proceedings, we discuss the role of heavy quark mass on the formation of parton showers. Mass effects are not well understood when parton branching occurs in nuclear matter, such as the quark-gluon plasma. Recently, a theoretically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-26 Ivan Vitev

Jet substructure provides a powerful probe of partonic interactions within the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. In this paper, we present a systematic theoretical study of the groomed substructures for both inclusive jets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Sa Wang , Shuang Li , Jin-Wen Kang , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

Discriminating quark and gluon jets is a long-standing topic in collider phenomenology. In this paper, we address this question using the Lund jet plane substructure technique introduced in recent years. We present two complementary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Frederic Dreyer , Gregory Soyez , Adam Takacs

We discuss jet substructure in recombination algorithms for QCD jets and single jets from heavy particle decays. We demonstrate that the jet algorithm can introduce significant systematic effects into the substructure. By characterizing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Stephen D. Ellis , Christopher K. Vermilion , Jonathan R. Walsh

The observation of quark and gluon jets has played a crucial role in establishing Quantum Chromodynamics [QCD] as the theory of the strong interactions within the Standard Model of particle physics. The jets, narrowly collimated bundles of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Ahmed Ali , Gustav Kramer

The striking suppression and modification patterns that are observed in jet observables measured in heavy-ion collisions with respect to the proton-proton baseline have the potential to constrain the spatio-temporal branching process of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-16 Konrad Tywoniuk , Yacine Mehtar-Tani

In heavy-ion collisions, an abundant production of high-energy QCD jets allows to study how these multiparticle sprays are modified as they pass through the quark-gluon plasma. In order to shed new light on this process, we compute the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-24 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Daniel Pablos , Konrad Tywoniuk

The characterization of the jet substructure can give insight into the microscopic nature of the modification induced on high-momentum partons by the Quark-Gluon Plasma that is formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Jet shapes…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 D. Caffarri

The modification of jets by interaction with the Quark Gluon Plasma has been extensively established through the comparison of observables computed for samples of jets produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions and proton-proton collisions. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-17 Miguel Crispim Romão , João Arruda Gonçalves , José Guilherme Milhano

We argue that contemporary jet substructure techniques might facilitate a more direct measurement of hard medium-induced gluon bremsstrahlung in heavy-ion collisions, and focus specifically on the "soft drop declustering" procedure that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-24 Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Konrad Tywoniuk

High energetic particles traversing a dense medium lose a sizable part of their energy in form of gluon radiation. As a result, the rate of high-$p_t$ particles is expected to be suppressed in heavy ion collisions with respect to the proton…

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

I look at propagation of jets that act as a probe of the medium in the phenomenologically relevant case of a short lived dilute Quark Gluon Plasma(QGP) created during heavy ion collisions. Working in the regime where the lifetime of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-27 Varun Vaidya

High energy quarks and gluons play essential roles in the tomographic study of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and of the quark-gluon plasma. They interact with the traversed dense matter through elastic and inelastic collisions, and lose…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-25 Guang-You Qin

Hard-jet correlations probe parton energy loss and the microscopic structure of the quark-gluon plasma formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The correlation of high-$p_\mathrm{T}$ jets with other jets, hadrons, or electroweak…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-02 Riccardo Longo

We investigate medium-induced modifications to jet substructure observables that characterize hard components in central Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$~TeV. Using a multistage Monte Carlo simulation of in-medium jet shower…