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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

It is widely believed that the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) might be formed in the current heavy ion collisions. It is also widely recognized that the relativistic hydrodynamics is one of the best tools for describing the process of expansion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-06 Zhi-Jin Jiang , Jia-Qi Hui , Yu Zhang

Heavy-quark observables in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, like the nuclear modification factor and the elliptic flow, give insight into the mechanisms of high-momentum suppression and low-momentum thermalization of heavy quarks.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Marlene Nahrgang , Jörg Aichelin , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner

Recent developments in the many-body perturbative QCD theory of inelastic parton interactions in dense nuclear matter and the phenomenology of strongly-interacting hard probes in heavy ion collisions are reviewed. We highlight the progress…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan Vitev

Jets physics in heavy ion reactions is an important new area of active research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that paves the way for novel tests of QCD multi-parton dynamics in dense…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-22 Yuncun He , Ivan Vitev , Ben-Wei Zhang

We review the properties of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at finite temperature $T$ and baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$ as created in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. The description of the strongly…

Interactions between jets and the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy ion collisions are studied via the angular distributions of summed charged-particle transverse momenta (pt) with respect to both the leading and subleading jet axes in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 CMS Collaboration

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

Mach cones are expected to form in the expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP) when energetic quarks and gluons (called jets) traverse the hot medium at a velocity faster than the speed of sound in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. The shape of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Zhong Yang , Yayun He , Wei Chen , Wei-Yao Ke , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

Jets from early stages of heavy-ion collisions undergo modified showering in quark-gluon plasma (QGP) relative to vacuum due to jet-medium interactions, which can be measured using observables like differential jet shape and generalized…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-03-22 Tanmay Pani

The modification of jets by interaction with the Quark Gluon Plasma has been extensively established through the comparison of observables computed for samples of jets produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions and proton-proton collisions. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-17 Miguel Crispim Romão , João Arruda Gonçalves , José Guilherme Milhano

In heavy-ion collisions, the quark-gluon plasma is expected to be produced, which is an almost perfect liquid that made up the Universe a few microseconds after the Big Bang. In these collisions, jets are also formed from hadronizing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-07 Monika Varga-Kofarago

One of the key signatures of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is the energy loss of high momentum particles as they traverse the strongly interacting medium. The energy loss of these particles is governed by the jet transport coefficient…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-08 Emma McLaughlin , Jacob Rose , Paolo Parotto , Claudia Ratti , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

There are strong indications that ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, produced in accelarators, lead to the formation of a new state of matter: the quark gluon plasma (QGP). This deconfined QCD matter is expected to exist just for very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-24 Nelson R. F. Braga , Rodrigo da Mata

One of the important perturbative ("hard") probes of hot and dense QCD matter is the medium-induced energy loss of energetic partons, so called "jet quenching", which is predicted to be very different in cold nuclear matter and in QGP, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 I. P. Lokhtin , L. V. Malinina , S. V. Petrushanko , A. M. Snigirev , I. Arsene , K. Tywoniuk

We study the collisional aspects of jet quenching in a high energy nuclear collision, especially in the final state pion gas. The jet has a large energy, and acquires momentum transverse to its axis more effectively by multiple soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-07 Carlos Hidalgo-Duque , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

Jet Flavor Tomography is a powerful tool used to probe the properties of Quark Gluon Plasma formed in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. A new Monte Carlo model of jet quenching developed at Columbia University, CUJET, was applied to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-02 Alessandro Buzzatti , Miklos Gyulassy

Lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD), defined on a discrete space time lattice, leads to a spectacular non-perturbative prediction of a new state of matter, called quark-gluon plasma (QGP), at sufficiently high temperatures or equivalently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. V. Gavai

Different types of high energy hard probes are used to extract the jet transport properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma created in heavy-ion collisions, of which the heavy boson tagged jets are undoubtedly the most sophisticated due to its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Lin Chen , Shu-Yi Wei , Han-Zhong Zhang

Using the recently published model for the collisional energy loss of heavy quarks (Q) in a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), based on perturbative QCD (pQCD) with a running coupling constant, we study the interaction between heavy quarks and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 P. B. Gossiaux , R. Bierkandt , J. Aichelin