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Understanding the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that is produced in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions has been one of the top priorities of the heavy ion program at the LHC. Energetic jets are produced and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Yang-Ting Chien

Jets of collimated particles serve a multitude of purposes in high energy collisions. Recently, studies of jet interaction with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in high energy heavy ion collisions are of growing interest, particularly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Jana Bielčíková , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Georgy Ponimatkin , Jörn H. Putschke , Josef Sivic

We perform a global analysis of experimental data on jet quenching for heavy flavors for scenarios with and without quark-gluon plasma formation in $pp$ collisions. We find that the theoretical predictions for the nuclear modification…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 B. G. Zakharov

Interactions of hard partons in the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) created with relativistic heavy ion collisions lead to characteristic modifications of the internal structure of reconstructed jets. A large part of the observed jet sub-structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-01 José Guilherme Milhano , Korinna Zapp

Quark-gluon plasma (QGP), when viewed at length scales of order the inverse of its temperature, behaves as a strongly-coupled liquid. However, when it is probed with sufficiently high momentum transfer, asymptotic freedom mandates the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Hannah Bossi , Arjun Kudinoor , Ian Moult , Daniel Pablos , Ananya Rai , Krishna Rajagopal

How are high-momentum transfer processes modified when embedded in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) instead of the vacuum? How can fundamental properties of the QGP be inferred from their medium-modifications? And what can be learnt about QCD?…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-27 Xin-Nian Wang , Urs Achim Wiedemann

The hot and dense QCD matter, known as the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), is explored through heavy-ion collision experiments at the LHC and RHIC. Jets and heavy flavors, produced from the initial hard scattering, are used as hard probes to…

An important aspect of the study of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in ultra-relativistic collisions of heavy ions is the ability to identify, in experimental data, a subset of the jets that were strongly modified by the interaction with the QGP.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 L. Apolinário , N. F. Castro , M. Crispim Romão , J. G. Milhano , R. Pedro , F. C. R. Peres

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

Jet quenching has been used successfully as a hard probe to study properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in high-energy heavy-collisions at both the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Shanshan Cao , Xin-Nian Wang

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

We present an analysis of the role that the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) resolution length, the minimal distance by which two nearby colored charges in a jet must be separated such that they engage with the plasma independently, plays in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 J. Casalderrey-Solana , G. Milhano , D. Pablos , K. Rajagopal

The presence of a hot and dense medium, produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, is known to modify the parton shower evolution. Several observations of the resulting intra-jet activity show significant modifications of what can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-02 Liliana Apolinário

In these proceedings, we discuss the role of heavy quark mass on the formation of parton showers. Mass effects are not well understood when parton branching occurs in nuclear matter, such as the quark-gluon plasma. Recently, a theoretically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-26 Ivan Vitev

Jet-induced medium excitation is a crucial part of jet interactions with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and has recently been confirmed by experiment for the first time. Based on the AMPT model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Ao Luo , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

Jet quenching has long been regarded as one of the key signatures for the formation of quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions. Despite significant efforts, the separate identification of quark and gluon jet quenching has remained as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-19 Shan-Liang Zhang , Jinfeng Liao , Guang-You Qin , Enke Wang , Hongxi Xing

Recently, it has been demonstrated that the chemical composition of jets in heavy ion collisions is significantly altered compared to jets in the vacuum. This signal can be used to probe the medium formed in nuclear collisions. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Liu , R. J. Fries

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

In the established paradigm of jet quenching in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, jets from initial hard parton scatterings are suppressed due to their interaction with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) as they traverse the hot medium, serving…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Peng Jing , Yichao Dang , Yang He , Shanshan Cao , Li Yi , Xin-Nian Wang

We complete the physical picture for the evolution of a high-energy jet propagating through a weakly-coupled quark-gluon plasma by investigating the thermalization of the soft components of the jet. We argue that the following scenario…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-26 Edmond Iancu , Bin Wu