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Jet grooming algorithms are widely used in experimental analyses at hadron colliders to remove contaminating radiation from within jets. While the algorithms perform a great service to the experiments, their intricate algorithmic structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Christopher Frye , Andrew J. Larkoski , Matthew D. Schwartz , Kai Yan

The jet angularities are a class of jet substructure observables which characterize the angular and momentum distribution of particles within jets. These observables are sensitive to momentum scales ranging from perturbative hard…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-12-02 ALICE Collaboration

We introduce a new 'quantile' analysis strategy to study the modification of jets as they traverse through a droplet of quark-gluon plasma. To date, most jet modification studies have been based on comparing the jet properties measured in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-18 Jasmine Brewer , José Guilherme Milhano , Jesse Thaler

The nuclear modification of jet splitting in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC energies is studied based on the higher twist formalism. Assuming coherent energy loss for the two splitted subjets, a non-monotonic jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 Ning-Bo Chang , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

This paper presents an overview of a survey of jet substructure observables used to study modifications of jets induced by interaction with a Quark Gluon Plasma. We further outline ideas that were presented and discussed at the \textit{New…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-06 Ankita Budhraja , Marco van Leeuwen , José Guilherme Milhano

Jet measurements in heavy ion collisions can provide constraints on the properties of the quark gluon plasma, but the kinematic reach is limited by a large, fluctuating background. We present a novel application of symbolic regression to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-12 Tanner Mengel , Patrick Steffanic , Charles Hughes , Antonio Carlos Oliveira da Silva , Christine Nattrass

The modification of quark- and gluon-initiated jets in the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has not yet received a definitive answer from experiments. In particular, the size of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Yueyang Ying

Jet quenching measurements using leading particles and their correlations suffer from known biases, which can be removed via direct reconstruction of jets in central heavy ion collisions. In this talk, we discuss several modern jet…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-09-10 Sevil Salur

In this paper, we study the fragmentation of a heavy quark into a jet near threshold, meaning that final state jet carries most of the energy of the fragmenting heavy quark. Using the heavy quark fragmentation function, we simultaneously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-13 Lin Dai , Chul Kim , Adam K. Leibovich

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

We review recent developments related to jet clustering algorithms and jet reconstruction, with particular emphasis on their implications in heavy ion collisions. These developments include fast implementations of sequential recombination…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-09 Juan Rojo

Energetic jets that traverse the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions serve as excellent probes to study this new state of deconfined QCD matter. Presently, however, our ability to achieve a crisp theoretical interpretation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Daniel Pablos , Alba Soto-Ontoso

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

A measurement of the angular structure of inclusive jets and those containing a prompt D$^0$ meson in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV is presented. The data corresponding to an integrated…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-05-27 CMS Collaboration

Jets can be used to probe the physical properties of the high energy density matter created in collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Measurements of strong suppression of inclusive hadron distributions and di-hadron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Sevil Salur

We report jet substructure measurements in $\mathrm{p\kern-0.05em p}$ and $\mbox{Pb-Pb}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector. Charged-particle jets were reconstructed at midrapidity with the ALICE…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-09-16 James Mulligan

In these proceedings, we briefly review how jets can be reconstructed in heavy-ion collisions. The main point we address is the subtraction of the large contamination from the underlying event background. We first present the main…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Gregory Soyez

Jet quenching has been one of the most important indicators that ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions produce a deconfined state of quarks and gluons, known as the Quark-Gluon Plasma. While the quenching of jets traditionally refers to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-01-04 Jaime Norman

Jet angularities are a class of jet substructure observables where a continuous parameter is introduced in order to interpolate between different classic observables such as the jet mass and jet broadening. We consider jet angularities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-29 Zhong-Bo Kang , Kyle Lee , Xiaohui Liu , Felix Ringer

In the past years significant progress has been made toward achieving a quantitative understanding of jets and their substructure in high-energy proton-proton collisions from first principles in QCD. Precise measurements have become…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 Felix Ringer