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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-19 Soeren Schlichting , Ismail Soudi

The theoretical interpretation of jet observables in heavy-ion collisions is a complex task due to the intricate interplay of perturbative and non-perturbative effects. One way to reduce this complexity is to groom away soft, wide-angle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Liliana Apolinário , Diogo Costa , Alba Soto-Ontoso

We propose a new observable, called zeal, to analyze events with jets in heavy ion collisions. The observable measures how a thermal medium affects the multiplicity and distribution of energetic particles in a jet. Using few known models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-21 Rajiv Gavai , Ambar Jain , Rishi Sharma

We study the fragmentation function of jets propagating through a dense quark-gluon plasma within perturbative QCD. Our results for its nuclear modification factor are in qualitative agreement with the experimental data in Pb+Pb collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 Paul Caucal , Edmond Iancu , Alfred H. Mueller , Gregory Soyez

Using a novel observable that relies on the momentum difference of the two most energetic subjets within a jet $\Delta S_{12}$ we study the internal structure of high-energy jets simulated by several Monte Carlo event generators that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-03 Liliana Apolinário , José Guilherme Milhano , Mateusz Ploskon , Xiaoming Zhang

Jet substructure observables serve as essential tools for probing the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Their interpretation, however, is often complicated by edge effects, which arise when correlated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Carlota Andres , Jack Holguin , Benjamin Kimelman , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Jussi Viinikainen , Zhong Yang

Jet substructure measurements in heavy-ion collisions provide constraints on jet quenching and the medium response in the QGP. Though there has been remarkable progress in inclusive-charged-hadron jet substructure measurements,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-22 Sierra Cantway

We confront a hybrid strong/weak coupling model for jet quenching to data from LHC heavy ion collisions. The model combines the perturbative QCD physics at high momentum transfer and the strongly coupled dynamics of non- abelian gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-26 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Doga Can Gulhan , Jose Guilherme Milhano , Daniel Pablos , Krishna Rajagopal

Based on a pQCD inspired dynamical model of jet-medium interactions, Jewel, we have studied possible modifications to inclusive jet yields and a set of jet shape observables, namely, the fragmentation functions and radial momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-25 Rathijit Biswas , Subikash Choudhury , Sidharth Kumar Prasad , Supriya Das

We explore the possibility of using the dead cone of heavy quarks as a region of the Lund plane where medium-induced gluon radiation can be isolated and characterised. The filling of the dead cone by medium-induced gluons is expected to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Leticia Cunqueiro , Davide Napoletano , Alba Soto-Ontoso

Within the context of a hybrid strong/weak coupling model of jet quenching, we study the modification of the angular distribution of the energy within jets in heavy ion collisions, as partons within jet showers lose energy and get kicked as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Doga Gulhan , Guilherme Milhano , Daniel Pablos , Krishna Rajagopal

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

Hard processes in collider experiments typically produce QCD jets, which have long served as precision tests of QCD in the vacuum. More recently, heavy-ion programs at RHIC and the LHC have offered a novel perspective on jets, establishing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-01 Yacine Mehtar-Tani

The study of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at ultra-relativistic energies can be performed in a controlled environment through lepton-hadron deep inelastic scatterings. In such collisions, the high-energy partonic emissions that follow from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-23 Liliana Apolinário , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Nuno Olavo Madureira

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

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

Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a unique window into far-from-equilibrium states of QCD matter. The initial stages of these events are characterized by highly anisotropic, nonthermal dynamics that precede hydrodynamization,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 João Barata , José Guilherme Milhano , Andrey V. Sadofyev , João M. Silva

The nuclear modification of jet splitting in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC energies is studied based on the higher twist formalism. Assuming coherent energy loss for the two splitted subjets, a non-monotonic jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 Ning-Bo Chang , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

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