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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…

A measurement of jet substructure variables is presented using data collected in 2016 by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC with proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV. Large-radius jets groomed with the trimming and soft-drop…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-04 ATLAS collaboration

The classification of jets induced by quarks or gluons is important for New Physics searches at high-energy colliders. However, available taggers usually rely on modelling the data through Monte Carlo simulations, which could veil…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-01 Ezequiel Alvarez , Michael Spannowsky , Manuel Szewc

A hot, dense medium called a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. Hard parton scatterings generate high momentum partons that traverse the medium, which then fragment into sprays of particle called…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-06-19 Megan Connors , Christine Nattrass , Rosi Reed , Sevil Salur

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

Jets lose energy as they propagate through the Quark-Gluon Plasma, modifying their parton shower. Jet substructure, which provides access to the evolution of jet splittings, is expected to be sensitive to interactions between the medium and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-09-30 Raymond Ehlers , for the ALICE Collaboration

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

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

Jet identification is one of the fields in high energy physics that machine learning has begun to make an impact. More often than not, convolutional neural networks are used to classify jet images with the benefit that essentially no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-16 Hui Luo , Ming-xing Luo , Kai Wang , Tao Xu , Guohuai Zhu

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

In these proceedings, we report on recent results related to vector boson-tagged jet production in heavy ion collisions and the related modification of jet substructure, such as jet shapes and jet momentum sharing distributions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Ivan Vitev

Progress in the theoretical understanding of parton branching dynamics within an expanding Quark Gluon Plasma relies on detailed and fair comparisons with experimental data for reconstructed jets. Such comparisons are only meaningful when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 João Arruda Gonçalves , José Guilherme Milhano

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 identification of jets and their constituents is one of the key problems and challenging task in heavy ion experiments such as experiments at RHIC and LHC. The presence of huge background of soft particles pose a curse for jet finding…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-10-18 Yogesh Verma , Satyajit Jena

Over the past 30 years, jet observables have proven to provide important information about the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. I review the challenges, results, and open problems of jet physics in heavy-ion collisions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-20 Barbara Betz

Jets are generated in hard interactions in high-energy nuclear collisions. Jets propagate through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) as the jet shower evolves; their interaction with the QGP, known as jet quenching, generates observable phenomena…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-11-23 Raymond Ehlers

Heavy quarks created in heavy-ion collisions serve as an excellent probe of the produced quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The radiation pattern of jets formed from heavy quarks as they traverse the QGP exhibits a particularly interesting structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 Carlota Andres , Fabio Dominguez , Jack Holguin , Cyrille Marquet , Ian Moult

Jet substructure observables serve as essential tools for probing the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Their interpretation, however, is often complicated by edge effects, which arise when correlated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Carlota Andres , Jack Holguin , Benjamin Kimelman , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Jussi Viinikainen , Zhong Yang

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

At the extreme energies of the Large Hadron Collider, massive particles can be produced at such high velocities that their hadronic decays are collimated and the resulting jets overlap. Deducing whether the substructure of an observed jet…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-06-01 Pierre Baldi , Kevin Bauer , Clara Eng , Peter Sadowski , Daniel Whiteson