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We apply weakly coupled QCD kinetic theory to investigate the thermalization of high-momentum on-shell partons (minijets) in a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Our approach incorporates isotropic hard thermal loop screening to model soft quark and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Kirill Boguslavski , Florian Lindenbauer , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Adam Takacs , Fabian Zhou

The Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model for jet propagation and interaction in quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has been used to study jet quenching in high-energy heavy-lion collisions. The suppression of single inclusive jet production, medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Yayun He , Shanshan Cao , Wei Chen , Tan Luo , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

A Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) Monte Carlo model has been developed to describe jet propagation and interaction with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A complete set of elastic scattering processes and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Tan Luo , Yayun He , Shanshan Cao , Xin-Nian Wang

Jets serve as powerful tomographic probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. While the expanding landscape of jet observables reveals multi-faceted aspects of jet-medium interactions, a precise and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Yichao Dang , Wen-Jing Xing , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

Recent data on the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ of jet fragments in 2.76 ATeV Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) indicate that the jet-medium coupling in a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is reduced at LHC energies and not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Barbara Betz , Miklos Gyulassy

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a hot and dense state of matter, called the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), is produced. Semi-inclusive jets recoiling from trigger hadrons of high transverse momenta ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) can serve as an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Yang He , Maowu Nie , Shanshan Cao , Rongrong Ma , Li Yi , Helen Caines

The jet transport coefficient $\hat{q}$ is the leading transport coefficient that controls the modification of hard jets produced in heavy-ion collisions. This coefficient is inherently non-perturbative, and hence, is challenging to compute…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-12 Amit Kumar , Abhijit Majumder , Chiho Nonaka

The Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model coupled to hydrodynamical background is extended to include transport of both light partons and heavy quarks through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. The LBT model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Shanshan Cao , Tan Luo , Guang-You Qin , Xin-Nian Wang

We investigate the jet quenching parameter in the case of a fast moving quark in an anisotropic plasma. In the leading log approximation, strong indications are found that the transport coefficient increases with increasing anisotropy.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Yacine Mehtar-Tani

We study the suppressions of high transverse momentum single hadron and dihadron productions in high-energy heavy-ion collisions based on the framework of a next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD parton model combined with the higher-twist…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Man Xie , Shu-Yi Wei , Guang-You Qin , Han-Zhong Zhang

Jet-energy loss is an important sign of the creation of Quark-Gluon Plasma in heavy-ion collisions. High transverse momentum ($p_T$) partons are produced at the moment of initial hard scattering and are modified as a result of their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-18 Rouzbeh Modarresi Yazdi , Shuzhe Shi , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

Suppression of jet spectra or jet quenching in high-energy heavy-ion collisions is caused by jet energy loss in the dense medium. The azimuthal anisotropy of jet energy loss in non-central heavy-ion collisions can lead to jet anisotropy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-24 Yayun He , Wei Chen , Tan Luo , Shanshan Cao , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

We build a new phenomenological framework that bridges the long wavelength bulk viscous transport properties of the strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) and short distance hard jet transport properties in the QGP. The full…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-11 Jiechen Xu , Jinfeng Liao , Miklos Gyulassy

Recent studies have highlighted the potential of jet substructure techniques to identify the hadronic decays of boosted heavy particles. These studies all rely upon the assumption that the internal substructure of jets generated by QCD…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 ATLAS Collaboration

The production of heavy quark (HQ) jets provides a new arena to address the mass effect of jet quenching in heavy-ion physics. This paper presents a theoretical study of HQ jet yield suppression in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC and focuses on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Sa Wang , Shuang Li , Yao Li , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

We derive an expression relating the transport parameter $\hat{q}$ and the shear viscosity $\eta$ of a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma. A deviation from this relation can be regarded as a quantitative measure of ``strong coupling'' of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Majumder , B. Müller , X. -N. Wang

We present a study of the nuclear-medium induced transverse momentum broadening of particle production in future electron-ion-collision~(EIC) experiments. By considering the multiple scattering between hard partons and cold nuclear medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-07 Peng Ru , Zhong-Bo Kang , Enke Wang , Hongxi Xing , Ben-Wei Zhang

We present a jet quenching model within a unified multi-stage framework and demonstrate for the first time a simultaneous description of leading hadrons, inclusive jets, and elliptic flow observables which spans multiple centralities and…

This study investigates the color-charge dependence of parton energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium and the associated relative modifications of quark and gluon jet fractions compared to vacuum, using jet axis decorrelation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-08 Raghunath Pradhan , Olga Evdokimov

We present a new model for jet quenching in a quark gluon plasma (QGP). The jet energy loss has two steps. The initial jet parton with a high virtuality loses energy by a perturbative vacuum parton shower modified by medium interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-27 Iurii Karpenko , Alexander Lind , Martin Rohrmoser , Joerg Aichelin , Pol-Bernard Gossiaux