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Galaxy clusters contain a hot, diffuse, and weakly magnetized plasma known as the intracluster medium (ICM). In this environment, how thermal conduction influences plasma dynamics and the conditions under which it operates efficiently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Nana Matsuno , Takaaki Yokoyama , Mami Machida

Medium-induced gluon radiation is usually identified as the dominant dynamical mechanism underling the {\it jet quenching} phenomenon observed in heavy-ion collisions. In its actual implementation, multiple medium-induced gluon emissions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 N. Armesto , L. Cunqueiro , C. A. Salgado , W. -C. Xiang

We study the properties of the chromohydrodynamical instabilities induced by a relativistic jet that crosses the quark-gluon plasma. Assuming that the jet of particles and the plasma can be described using a hydrodynamical approach, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Massimo Mannarelli , Cristina Manuel

We continue our exploration of the collective modes of an anisotropic quark gluon plasma by extending our previous analysis to arbitrary Riemann sheets. We demonstrate that in the presence of momentum-space anisotropies in the parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul Romatschke , Michael Strickland

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

We study the gluon radiation spectrum off a hard in-medium produced quark in the multiple soft rescattering formalism of Baier-Dokshitzer-Mueller-Peigne-Schiff, and of Zakharov (BDMPS-Z). Its dependence on the quark and gluon energy, on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Urs Achim Wiedemann

We study the medium-induced gluon emission process experienced by a hard jet parton propagating through the dense nuclear matter in the framework of deep inelastic scattering off a large nucleus. We work beyond the collinear rescattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-09 Le Zhang , De-Fu Hou , Guang-You Qin

A central compact object (CCO, e.g. a black hole) with an accretion disk has been suggested as the common central engine of various astrophysical phenomena, such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), tidal disruption events (TDEs) and active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Mi-Xiang Lan , Rui Xue , Dingrong Xiong , Wei-Hua Lei , Xue-Feng Wu , Zi-Gao Dai

We present predictions for jet suppression from small to intermediate to very large radius, for low and very high energy jets created in heavy ion collisions at the LHC. We use the hybrid strong/weak coupling model for jet quenching that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 Daniel Pablos

We calculate the gluon dissociation cross-section in an anisotropic quark gluon plasma expected to be formed due relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. The initial rapid longitudinal expansion of the system leads to momentum space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Mahatsab Mandal , Pradip Roy

Interstellar magnetic fields influence all stages of the process of star formation, from the collapse of molecular cloud cores to the formation of protostellar jets. This requires us to have a full understanding of the physical properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cecilia Pinto , Daniele Galli , Francesca Bacciotti

We propose the angular distribution of lepton pairs produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions as a probe of thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma. We focus on dileptons with invariant masses large enough that they are produced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-07 Maurice Coquet , Xiaojian Du , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Soeren Schlichting , Michael Winn

The quark gluon plasma generated in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions may possess sizable momentum-space anisotropies that cause the longitudinal and transverse pressures in the local rest frame to be significantly different. We review…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Michael Strickland

The transverse polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons within unpolarized jets originates from the transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) fragmentation function $D_{1T}^\perp (z, p_T, \mu^2)$. In the vacuum environment, the QCD evolution of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-12 Xin-yu Qin , Yu-Kun Song , Shu-yi Wei

We discuss the evolution of anisotropic boost-invariant quark-gluon plasma possibly created at the early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Our considerations are based on the recently proposed formalism that is an extension of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-01-15 W. Florkowski , R. Ryblewski

We calculate exact analytical expressions for \oas 3-jet and \oasz \\ 4-jet cross sections in polarized deep inelastic lepton nucleon scattering. Introducing an invariant jet definition scheme, we present differential distributions of 3-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Mirkes , C. Ziegler

We describe the energy distribution of hard gluons travelling through a dense quark-gluon plasma whose temperature increases linearly with time, within a probabilistic perturbative approach. The results were applied to the thermalization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-21 F. G. Ben , M. V. T. Machado

Jet-medium interaction involves two important effects: jet energy loss and medium response. The search for jet-induced medium excitations is one of the hot topics in jet quenching study in relativistic nuclear collisions. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Ao Luo , Ya-Xian Mao , Guang-You Qin , En-Ke Wang , Han-Zhong Zhang

We compute the leading-order collisional energy loss of a heavy quark propagating through a quark-gluon plasma in which the quark and gluon distributions are anisotropic in momentum space. Following the calculation outlined for QED in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul Romatschke , Michael Strickland

We investigate the interaction of leading jet partons within a strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) medium, using the effective dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM). The DQPM offers a description of the sQGP's non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Ilia Grishmanovskii , Taesoo Song , Olga Soloveva , Carsten Greiner , Elena Bratkovskaya