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Jet quenching is a phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions arising from jet interactions with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Its study is complicated by the interplay of multiple physics processes that affect jet observables. In addition,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Yilun Wu , Yi Chen , Julia Velkovska

We study the phenomenon of jet quenching utilizing quark and gluon jet substructures as independent probes of heavy ion collisions. We exploit jet and subjet features to highlight differences between quark and gluon jets in vacuum and in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-12 Yang-Ting Chien , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Jet quenching in high-energy heavy-ion collisions can be used to probe properties of hot and dense quark-gluon plasma. We provide a brief introduction to the concept and framework for the study of jet quenching. Different approaches and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 Guang-You Qin , Xin-Nian Wang

Understanding the inner working of the quark-gluon plasma requires complete and precise jet substructure studies in heavy ion collisions. In this proceeding we discuss the use of quark and gluon jets as independent probes, and how their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Yang-Ting Chien

This paper presents the application of a variety of techniques to study jet substructure. The performance of various modified jet algorithms, or jet grooming techniques, for several jet types and event topologies is investigated for jets…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-10-28 ATLAS Collaboration

Two suggested models of jet fragmentation in a quark-gluon plasma have been tested, combined and further developed. This has been done by generating hard processes in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=2.76$ GeV in PYTHIA 8 with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-15 Viktor Linders

Hard splittings in the evolution of a jet may be modified by the presence of a dense strongly interacting medium. Grooming procedures can be used to isolate such hard components of a jet and allows one to focus on the two subjets resulting…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Harry Arthur Andrews

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

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 present a comprehensive study of jet substructure modifications in high-energy heavy-ion collisions using both inclusive jets and $\gamma$-tagged jets, based on a multi-stage jet evolution model within the Monte Carlo framework JETSCAPE.…

Whether quark- and gluon-initiated jets are modified differently by the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has thus far eluded a definitive experimental answer. A crucial complication for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Jasmine Brewer , Jesse Thaler , Andrew P. Turner

The ALICE Collaboration presents a new suite of jet substructure measurements in Pb-Pb and pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair $\sqrt{s}_{\rm NN} = 5.02$ TeV. These measurements provide access to the internal structure…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-19 ALICE Collaboration

The jet quenching phenomenon in heavy ion collisions provides a strong evidence of the modification of parton shower in the quark-gluon plasma. This contribution focuses on the hard probes of QGP using jets and summarizes the new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-20 Yang-Ting Chien

This article presents measurements of the groomed jet radius and momentum splitting fraction in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Inclusive charged-particle jets are reconstructed at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-06-22 ALICE Collaboration

Jet modification in heavy-ion collisions is an important probe of the nature and structure of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in these collisions and also encodes information about how the wakes that jets excite in a droplet of QGP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-09 Jasmine Brewer , Quinn Brodsky , Krishna Rajagopal

We study the jet energy drop, which is the relative difference between the groomed and ungroomed jet energy or transverse momentum. It is one of the fundamental quantities that characterizes the impact of grooming on jets produced in high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-15 Pedro Cal , Kyle Lee , Felix Ringer , Wouter J. Waalewijn

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

The jet quenching phenomenon in heavy ion collisions provides a strong evidence of the modification of parton shower in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Jet substructure observables can probe various aspects of the jet formation mechanism.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-22 Yang-Ting Chien

We investigate the medium modifications of momentum splitting fraction and groomed jet radius with both dynamical grooming and soft drop algorithms in heavy-ion collisions. In the calculation, the partonic spectrum of initial hard…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Lei Wang , Jin-Wen Kang , Qing Zhang , Shuwan Shen , Wei Dai , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

We present a comprehensive study of jet substructure observables in $pp$ and PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$~TeV using a multi-phase transport model. To suppress background contamination, the constituent subtraction method is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-25 Xiang-Pan Duan , Tan Luo , Guo-Liang Ma