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In these proceedings we report a recent calculation of the jet charge modification in heavy-ion relative to proton collisions at the LHC. Jets have played an essential role in constraining theories of in-medium parton shower evolution and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-09 Haitao Li , Ivan Vitev

Fixed-target experiments permit the study of hadron production in the target fragmentation region. It is expected that the tagging of specific particles in the target fragments can be employed to introduce a bias in the hard scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Dirk Graudenz

We compute in the heavy quark effective theory the soft coefficient D_2 entering the resummation of next-to-next-to-leading threshold logarithms for jets initiated by a quark with a small mass compared to the hard scale of the process. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-16 Ugo Aglietti , Leonardo Di Giustino , Giancarlo Ferrera , Luca Trentadue

Jet quenching and more generally physics at high transverse momentum P_T scales is a cornerstone of the heavy-ion physics program at the LHC. In this work, the current understanding of jet quenching in terms of a QCD shower evolution being…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Thorsten Renk

We critically discuss fragmentation of quark or antiquark to massive particles (mesons or baryons) in proton-proton collisions. Both heavy and light quark/antiquark fragmentations are discussed using universal $z$-dependent fragmentation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Rafal Maciula , Antoni Szczurek

The color field of a quark, stripped off in a hard reaction, is regenerated via gluon radiation. The space-time development of a jet is controlled by the coherence time of gluon radiation, which for heavy quarks is subject to the dead-cone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-20 B. Z. Kopeliovich , Jan Nemchik , I. K. Potashnikova , Ivan Schmidt

In collider physics, jet algorithms are a ubiquitous tool for clustering particles into discrete jet objects. Event shapes offer an alternative way to characterize jets, and one can define a jet multiplicity event shape, which can take on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniele Bertolini , Jesse Thaler , Jonathan R. Walsh

I review recent theoretical progress on the description of heavy quark, jet and gauge boson production at colliders within perturbative QCD. Particular emphasis is put on the improved understanding of fragmentation phenomena, resummation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Gehrmann

The finite mass of the heavy quark suppresses the collimated radiations, which is generally referred to as the dead cone effect. In this paper, we study the distribution of hadron multiplicity over the hadron opening angle with respect to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-25 Chuan-Hui Jiang , Hai Tao Li , Shi-Yuan Li , Zong-Guo Si

Jets constructed via clustering algorithms (e.g., anti-$k_T$, soft-drop) have been proposed for many precision measurements, such as the strong coupling $\alpha_s$ and the nucleon intrinsic dynamics. However, the theoretical accuracy is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-15 Hao-yu Liu , Xiaohui Liu , Sven-Olaf Moch

Jet quenching has successfully served as a hard probe to study the properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). As a multi-particle system, jets take time to develop from a highly virtual parton to a group of partons close to mass shells. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-16 Mengxue Zhang , Yang He , Shanshan Cao , Li Yi

Jets are suppressed and modified in heavy ion collisions, which serve as powerful probes to the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Attributed to the abundant information carried by the jet constituents and reconstructed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-22 Yi-Lun Du

When an energetic parton traversing the QCD medium, it may suffer multiple scatterings and lose energy. This jet quenching phenomenon may lead to the suppression of leading hadron productions as well as medium modifications of full jet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Ben-Wei Zhang , Guo-Yang Ma , Wei Dai , Sa Wang , Shan-Liang Zhang

Jet suppression and modification is a hallmark feature of heavy-ion collisions. This can be attributed to an accumulated set of effects, including radiative and elastic energy loss and reabsorption of thermalized energy within the jet cone,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexandre Falcão , Konrad Tywoniuk

We present an effective field theory method to determine secondary massive quark effects in jet production taking the thrust distribution for e+ e- collisions in the dijet limit as a concrete example. The method is based on the field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-21 Simon Gritschacher , Andre H. Hoang , Ilaria Jemos , Piotr Pietrulewicz

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

We investigate the high-energy production of tetraquark-jet systems at the LHC and its forthcoming High-Luminosity upgrade. In this review, we examine the leading-power fragmentation of fully heavy tetraquarks ($T_{4Q}$) in hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Francesco Giovanni Celiberto

Far above threshold the production process e^+e^-to t t-bar can be analyzed using effective field theories. In this talk we consider the invariant mass distribution of top-jets and report about our computation of the two-loop heavy quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-14 Ambar Jain , Ignazio Scimemi , Iain W. Stewart

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

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