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I present an overview of recent developments in the microscopic description of the quark-gluon plasma. I will concentrate on medium-induced emission and transverse momentum broadening. These are two key ingredients of the theory of jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-13 Jacopo Ghiglieri

We study the evolution and saturation of the gluon distribution function in the quark-gluon plasma as probed by a propagating parton and its effect on the computation of jet quenching or transport parameter $\hat{q}$. For thermal partons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Xin-Nian Wang

Starting with a reminder of what is strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma (sQGP), we proceed to recent advances in jet quenching and heavy quark diffusion, with a brief summary of various results based on AdS/CFT correspondence. The conical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Edward Shuryak

QCD jets provide one of the best avenues to extract information about the quark-gluon plasma produced in the aftermath of ultra relativistic heavy ions collisions. The structure of jets is determined by multiparticle quantum interference…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-20 João Barata , Xiaojian Du , Meijian Li , Wenyang Qian , Carlos A. Salgado

Transverse momentum broadening and energy loss of a propagating parton are dictated by the space-time profile of the jet transport coefficient $\hat q$ in a dense QCD medium. The spatial gradient of $\hat q$ perpendicular to the propagation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-23 Yayun He , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

We study the effects of jet quenching on the hydrodynamical evolution of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) fluid created in a heavy-ion collision. In jet quenching, a hard QCD parton, before fragmenting into a jet of hadrons, deposits a fraction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 A. K. Chaudhuri , Ulrich W. Heinz

We analyze the transverse momentum broadening in the absence of radiation of an energetic parton propagating through quark-gluon plasma via Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). We show that the probability for picking up transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-28 Francesco D'Eramo , Hong Liu , Krishna Rajagopal

The phenomenon of jet quenching, related to the momentum broadening of a high-energy parton, provides important experimental evidence for the production of a strongly coupled, deconfined medium in heavy-ion collisions. Its theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-03-03 Marco Panero , Kari Rummukainen , Andreas Schäfer

We calculate P(k_\perp), the probability distribution for an energetic parton that propagates for a distance L through a medium without radiating to pick up transverse momentum k_\perp, for a medium consisting of weakly coupled quark-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Francesco D'Eramo , Mindaugas Lekaveckas , Hong Liu , Krishna Rajagopal

We formulate out-of-equilibrium jet momentum broadening in QCD effective kinetic theory through a moment expansion of the medium distribution function, a method traditionally used to derive relativistic viscous hydrodynamics from kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-14 Isabella Danhoni , Nicki Mullins , Jorge Noronha

A powerful historical insight about the theory of in-medium showering in QCD backgrounds was that splitting rates can be related to a parameter $\hat q$ that characterizes the rate of transverse-momentum kicks to a high-energy particle from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Peter Arnold

The presence of a hot and dense medium, produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, is known to modify the parton shower evolution. Several observations of the resulting intra-jet activity show significant modifications of what can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-02 Liliana Apolinário

For jets, with great power comes great opportunity. The unprecedented center of mass energies available at the LHC open new windows on the QGP: we demonstrate that jet shape and jet cross section measurements become feasible as a new,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-20 Ivan Vitev , Simon Wicks , Ben-Wei Zhang

We calculate the jet quenching parameter in medium with chemical potential from AdS/CFT correspondence. Our result is summarized in a plot. Moreover, we extract the explicit form of the jet quenching parameter of medium with small chemical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Feng-Li Lin , Toshihiro Matsuo

Motivated by color coherence and decoherence effects in the QCD medium, we propose a theoretical framework that combines vacuum-like emissions and medium-induced radiation to study jet quenching and its dependence on jet cone sizes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Xiang-Pan Duan , Lin Chen , Guo-Liang Ma , Carlos A. Salgado , Bin Wu

Jet quenching parameter $\hat{q}$ is essential for characterizing the interaction strength between jet partons and nuclear matter. Based on the quark-meson (QM) model, we develop a new framework for calculating $\hat{q}$ at finite chemical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-11 Jing Wu , Shanshan Cao , Feng Li

This thesis focuses on how jets are modified by the nonequilibrium quark-gluon plasma during the initial stages in heavy-ion collisions. Its influence on their propagation is typically encoded in a single medium function, the dipole cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Florian Lindenbauer

Medium modification of jet fragmentation function due to multiple scattering and induced gluon radiation leads directly to jet quenching or suppression of leading particle distribution from jet fragmentation. One can extract an effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Xin-Nian Wang

Jet suppression in high-energy heavy-ion collisions results from jet energy loss and transverse-momentum broadening during jet propagation through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The jet cone size ($R$) dependence of this suppression offers…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Qing-Fei Han , Man Xie , Han-Zhong Zhang

We present a study of the impact of the expansion of deconfined medium on single-gluon emission spectra and the jet suppression factor ($Q_{AA}$) within the BDMPS-Z formalism. These quantities are calculated for three types of media (static…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-08 Souvik Priyam Adhya , Carlos A. Salgado , Martin Spousta , Konrad Tywoniuk