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Methodology is presented for analysis of three-particle correlation functions obtained in heavy ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. We show that harmonic correlations can be removed and jet driven correlations reliably extracted.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-24 N. N. Ajitanand , J. M. Alexander , Roy A. Lacey , A. Taranenko

The classification of jets as quark- versus gluon-initiated is an important yet challenging task in the analysis of data from high-energy particle collisions and in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. The recent integration of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Alexis Romero , Daniel Whiteson , Michael Fenton , Julian Collado , Pierre Baldi

Jet interactions with the color-deconfined QCD medium in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are conventionally assessed by measuring the modification of the distributions of jet observables with respect to their baselines in proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 Ran Li , Yi-Lun Du , Shanshan Cao

Jet quenching is a phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions arising from jet interactions with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Its study is complicated by the interplay of multiple physics processes that affect jet observables. In addition,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Yilun Wu , Yi Chen , Julia Velkovska

Jet interactions in a hot QCD medium created in heavy-ion collisions are conventionally assessed by measuring the modification of the distributions of jet observables with respect to the proton-proton baseline. However, the steeply falling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-01 Yi-Lun Du , Daniel Pablos , Konrad Tywoniuk

We apply a Dense Neural Network (DNN) approach to reconstruct jet momentum within a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) background, using simulated data from PYTHIA and Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) Models for comparative analysis. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Ran Li , Yi-Lun Du , Shanshan Cao

The identification of jets and their constituents is one of the key problems and challenging task in heavy ion experiments such as experiments at RHIC and LHC. The presence of huge background of soft particles pose a curse for jet finding…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-10-18 Yogesh Verma , Satyajit Jena

Jet point cloud images are high dimensional data structures that needs to be transformed to a separable feature space for machine learning algorithms to distinguish them with simple decision boundaries. In this article, the authors focus on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-08 Jairo Orozco Sandoval , Vidya Manian , Sudhir Malik

Progress in the theoretical understanding of parton branching dynamics within an expanding Quark Gluon Plasma relies on detailed and fair comparisons with experimental data for reconstructed jets. Such comparisons are only meaningful when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 João Arruda Gonçalves , José Guilherme Milhano

Building on the notion of a particle physics detector as a camera and the collimated streams of high energy particles, or jets, it measures as an image, we investigate the potential of machine learning techniques based on deep learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-24 Luke de Oliveira , Michael Kagan , Lester Mackey , Benjamin Nachman , Ariel Schwartzman

Jet quenching is considered to be one of the signatures of the formation of quark gluon plasma. In order to investigate the jet quenching, it is necessary to detect jets produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions, determine their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. C. Phatak , P. K. Sahu

We study the phenomenon of jet quenching utilizing quark and gluon jet substructures as independent probes of heavy ion collisions. We exploit jet and subjet features to highlight differences between quark and gluon jets in vacuum and in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-12 Yang-Ting Chien , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

The classification of events involving jets as signal-like or background-like can depend strongly on the jet algorithm used and its parameters. This is partly due to the fact that standard jet algorithms yield a single partition of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Dilani Kahawala , David Krohn , Matthew D. Schwartz

Deep learning techniques have the power to identify the degree of modification of high energy jets traversing deconfined QCD matter on a jet-by-jet basis. Such knowledge allows us to study jets based on their initial, rather than final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-04 Yi-Lun Du , Daniel Pablos , Konrad Tywoniuk

Measurements of jet substructure in heavy-ion collisions may provide key insight to the nature of jet quenching in the quark-gluon plasma. Jet grooming techniques from high-energy physics have been applied to heavy-ion collisions in order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-03 James Mulligan , Mateusz Ploskon

Jets clustered from heavy ion collision measurements combine a dense background of particles with those actually resulting from a hard partonic scattering. The background contribution to jet transverse momentum ($p_{T}$) may be corrected by…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-08-13 David Stewart , Joern Putschke

Reconstructed jets in heavy ion collisions are a crucial tool for understanding the quark-gluon plasma. The separation of jets from the underlying event is necessary particularly in central heavy ion reactions in order to quantify medium…

Jet identification is one of the fields in high energy physics that machine learning has begun to make an impact. More often than not, convolutional neural networks are used to classify jet images with the benefit that essentially no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-16 Hui Luo , Ming-xing Luo , Kai Wang , Tao Xu , Guohuai Zhu

At the extreme energies of the Large Hadron Collider, massive particles can be produced at such high velocities that their hadronic decays are collimated and the resulting jets overlap. Deducing whether the substructure of an observed jet…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-06-01 Pierre Baldi , Kevin Bauer , Clara Eng , Peter Sadowski , Daniel Whiteson

Jets can be used to probe the physical properties of the high energy density matter created in collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Measurements of strong suppression of inclusive hadron distributions and di-hadron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Sevil Salur