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We present the first calculation of the momentum sharing and angular separation distributions between the leading subjets inside a reconstructed jet in heavy ion collisions. These observables are directly sensitive to the hardest branching…

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The future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will operate a series of high-luminosity high-energy electron+proton ($e+p$) and electron+nucleus ($\textit{e + A}$) collisions to study several fundamental questions in the high energy and nuclear…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-24 Xuan Li

The production of hadronic final states in electron-positron or electron-hadron collisions is induced predominantly by quasi-real photons that were emitted off incoming leptons. In these processes, the photon either enters directly or…

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We develop an Effective Field Theory approach for jet observables in heavy-ion collisions, where the jet is treated as an open quantum system interacting with a hot and dense QCD medium. Within this framework, we derive a novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-11 Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Felix Ringer , Balbeer Singh , Varun Vaidya

This review examines data from hadron-nucleus collisions, primarily focusing on hard processes like Drell-Yan, heavy flavor and quarkonium production. It highlights observed modifications of particle yields as functions of momentum and…

Jets are extended multipartonic systems and serve as a powerful tool for investigating the dynamics of emergent phenomena driven by many body QCD interactions. In heavy ion collisions, starting from their production during the perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-26 Balbeer Singh

When an energetic parton traversing the QCD medium, it may suffer multiple scatterings and lose energy. This jet quenching phenomenon may lead to the suppression of leading hadron productions as well as medium modifications of full jet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Ben-Wei Zhang , Guo-Yang Ma , Wei Dai , Sa Wang , Shan-Liang Zhang

Two important initial-state nuclear effects in hadron-nucleus collisions are considered. The ratios of inclusive differential cross sections for Drell-Yan dimuon production are calculated. The calculated results are compared to the E866…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ya. A. Berdnikov , V. T. Kim , V. F. Kosmach , M. M. Ryzhinskiy , V. M. Samsonov , M. E. Zavatsky

We propose the lepton-jet correlation in deep inelastic scattering as a unique tool for nucleon/nucleus tomography at the electron-ion collider. The azimuthal angular correlation between the final state lepton and jet depends on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Xiaohui Liu , Felix Ringer , Werner Vogelsang , Feng Yuan

The jet fragmentation function describes the longitudinal momentum distribution of hadrons inside a reconstructed jet. We study the jet fragmentation function in proton-proton collisions in the framework of soft-collinear effective theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-24 Yang-Ting Chien , Zhong-Bo Kang , Felix Ringer , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

The difference between the structures of jets produced in heavy-ion and hadronic collisions can best be exhibited in the correlations between particles within those jets. We study the dihadron correlations in jets in the framework of parton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Rudolph C. Hwa , C. B. Yang

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 calculate the cross section for production of a soft photon and two hard jets in the forward rapidity region in proton-nucleus collisions at high energies. The calculation is performed within the hybrid formalism. The hardness of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-23 Tolga Altinoluk , Néstor Armesto , Alex Kovner , Michael Lublinsky , Elena Petreska

Nuclei are unique analyzers of the space-time development of jets at early stage. We argue that the gluon bremsstrahlung, rather than the color string, is the main mechanism of hadronization of highly virtual quarks produced in a hard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Kopeliovich

The production of hard photons in hadronic collisions is studied using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). This is the first application of SCET to a physical, observable cross section involving energetic partons in more than two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-10 Thomas Becher , Matthew D. Schwartz

In the cross section for single-inclusive jet production in electron-nucleon collisions, the distribution of a quark in an electron appears at next-to-next-to-leading order. The numerical calculations in Ref. [1] were carried out using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-29 Geoffrey T. Bodwin , Eric Braaten

We review recent developments in the QCD description of jet production and modification in reactions with heavy nuclei at relativistic energies. Our goal is to formulate a perturbative expansion in the presence of nuclear matter that allows…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-27 I. Vitev

While strong attenuation of single particle production and particle correlations has provided convincing evidence for large parton energy loss in the QGP, its application to jet tomography has inherent limitations due to the inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Ben-Wei Zhang

Jet physics in relativistic heavy ion collisions, which combines perturbative QCD jet production with quark and gluon energy loss and in-medium parton shower modification, has emerged as a powerful tool to probe the properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-24 Ben-Wei Zhang , Yuncun He , R. B. Neufeld , Ivan Vitev , Enke Wang

In high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions, a transient state of thermalized, hot and dense matter governed by Quantum Chromodynamics is produced. Properties of this state are reflected in the bulk low transverse momentum (P_T) hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Thorsten Renk