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We study the jet quenching parameter $\hat q$ in a non-equilibrium plasma using the QCD effective kinetic theory. We discuss subleading terms at large jet momentum p, show that our expression for $\hat q$ reproduces thermal results at small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Kirill Boguslavski , Aleksi Kurkela , Tuomas Lappi , Florian Lindenbauer , Jarkko Peuron

To probe the properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions, a very useful class of observables refers to the propagation of energetic jets. A jet is a collimated spray of particles generated via successive parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-07 Paul Caucal

We present a new formulation of jet quenching in perturbative QCD beyond the eikonal approximation. Multiple scattering in the medium is modelled through infra-red-continued (2 -> 2) scattering matrix elements in QCD and the parton shower…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-03 Korinna C. Zapp , Frank Krauss , Urs A. Wiedemann

We present here a possible resolution of the jet quenching parameter $\hat{q}$ puzzle by exploring the momentum fraction $x$ and scale $Q^2$ dependence of $\hat{q}$, in addition to temperature dependence. We explore the momentum broadening…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Amit Kumar , Evan Bianchi , Jacob Elledge , Abhijit Majumder , Guang-You Qin , Chun Shen

Following the non-perturbative light-front Hamiltonian formalism developed in our preceding work [Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 5, 056014], we investigate the momentum broadening of a quark jet inside a SU(3) colored medium. We perform the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-12 Meijian Li , Tuomas Lappi , Xingbo Zhao , Carlos A. Salgado

Parton propagation in dense nuclear matter results in elastic, inelastic and coherent multiple soft scattering with the in-medium color charges. Such scattering leads to calculable modifications of the hadron production cross section that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ivan Vitev

The description of the modifications of the coherence pattern in a parton shower, in the presence of a QGP, has been actively addressed in recent studies. Among the several achievements, finite energy corrections, transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-22 Liliana Apolinário , Néstor Armesto , Guilherme Milhano , Carlos A. Salgado

After almost two decades of investigation, jet quenching has become a fundamental tool to study the properties of the QCD matter produced in high-energy nuclear collisions. Despite the large progress in both experimental and theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-22 Xabier Feal , Carlos A. Salgado , Ricardo A. Vazquez

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

Jets provide one of the primary probes of the quark-gluon plasma produced in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and the cold nuclear matter explored in deep inelastic scattering experiments. However, despite important developments in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-10 João Barata , Xiaojian Du , Meijian Li , Wenyang Qian , Carlos A. Salgado

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

We present a new model for jet quenching from coherent radiation in a brick medium. The jet energy loss is simulated as a perturbative final-state vacuum parton shower followed by a medium-induced shower originating from elastic and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-26 Alexander Lind , Iurii Karpenko , Martin Rohrmoser , Joerg Aichelin , Pol Gossiaux , Klaus Werner

We study, in a pQCD calculation augmented by nuclear effects, the jet energy loss needed to reproduce the pi^0 spectra in Au+Au collisions at large p_T, measured by PHENIX at RHIC. The transverse width of the parton momentum distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Fai , G. G. Barnafoldi , M. Gyulassy , P. Levai , G. Papp , I. Vitev , Y. Zhang

We extend the calculation of radiative corrections to momentum broadening in a QCD medium to include processes where single scattering dominates over multiple soft scatterings. Our analysis focusses on processes that are enhanced by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-13 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Fabio Dominguez

We reconsider the problem of transverse momentum broadening of a highly-energetic parton suffering multiple scatterings in dense colored media, such as the thermal Quark-Gluon plasma or large nuclei. In the framework of Moli\`ere's theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Joao Barata , Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Alba Soto-Ontoso , Konrad Tywoniuk

The quenching of jets (and high-pT particle spectra) observed in heavy-ion collisions is interpreted as due to the energy lost by hard partons crossing the Quark Gluon Plasma. Here we review recent efforts to include in its modeling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-02 A. Beraudo

We present a framework where first principles calculations of jet modification may be carried out in a non-perturbative thermal environment. As an example of this approach, we compute the leading order contribution to the transverse…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-27 Abhijit Majumder

Jets provide one of the primary probes of the quark-gluon plasma produced in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and the cold nuclear matter explored in deep inelastic scattering experiments. However, despite important developments in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-24 Wenyang Qian

Within the context of a hybrid strong/weak coupling model of jet quenching, we study the modification of the angular distribution of the energy within jets in heavy ion collisions, as partons within jet showers lose energy and get kicked as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Doga Gulhan , Guilherme Milhano , Daniel Pablos , Krishna Rajagopal

We use Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) to analyze the transverse momentum broadening, or diffusion in transverse momentum space, of an energetic parton propagating through quark-gluon plasma. Since we neglect the radiation of gluons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-01 Francesco D'Eramo , Hong Liu , Krishna Rajagopal