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Quark-gluon plasma produced at the early stage of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is unstable, if weakly coupled, due to the anisotropy of its momentum distribution. Chromomagnetic fields are spontaneously generated and can reach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-22 M. E. Carrington , St. Mrówczyński , B. Schenke

Jet quenching, the modification of the properties of a QCD jet when the parton cascade takes place inside a medium, is an intrinsically quantum process, where color coherence effects play an essential role. Despite a very significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-13 João Barata , Carlos A. Salgado

The phenomenon of jet quenching, related to the momentum broadening of a high-energy parton, provides important experimental evidence for the production of a strongly coupled, deconfined medium in heavy-ion collisions. Its theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-03-03 Marco Panero , Kari Rummukainen , Andreas Schäfer

In this paper, we employ the gauge/gravity duality to study jet quenching (JQ) phenomena in the quark-gluon plasma. For this purpose, we implement holographic QCD models constructed from an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity at finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Irina Ya. Aref'eva , Ali Hajilou , Alexander Nikolaev , Pavel Slepov

$\hat q$ is the average squared transverse momentum transfer per unit length to a high-energy particle traversing a QCD medium such as a quark-gluon plasma. We find the (UV-regulated) value of $\hat q$ to leading order in the weak coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 Peter Arnold , Wei Xiao

Within a multi-phase transport model with string melting scenario, jet transport parameter $\hat{q}$ is calculated in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN} } $= 200 GeV and Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN} } $= 2.76 TeV. The $\hat{q}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Feng-Chu Zhou , Guo-Liang Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

We consider the energy loss of a high-energy parton in the early anisotropic plasma in heavy-ion collisions. Working in the harmonic approximation, we compute the change in the mean energy of an emitted gluon in the presence of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-11 Kirill Boguslavski , Lucas Hörl , Florian Lindenbauer

We present a framework where first principles calculations of jet modification may be carried out in a non-perturbative thermal environment. As an example of this approach, we compute the leading order contribution to the transverse…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-27 Abhijit Majumder

In this paper we consider the problem of a moving heavy quark through a hot non-relativistic, non-commutative Yang-Mills plasma. We discuss about the configuration of the static quark and obtain the quasi-normal modes. Also we find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-01 J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan

Measuring the energy loss of energetic jet partons may provide experimental opportunities to constrain the initial nonequilibrium stages in heavy-ion collisions, which requires theoretical predictions for the jet-medium potential. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-05 Alois Altenburger , Kirill Boguslavski , Florian Lindenbauer

We argue that the radiative energy loss of a parton traversing the quark-gluon plasma is determined by Landau damping of soft modes in the plasma. Using this idea, we calculate the jet quenching parameter of a gluon. The calculation is done…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Antonov , H. -J. Pirner

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

The jet quenching phenomenon in an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma is studied using gauge-gravity duality. We consider a more general orientation of the contour of a lightlike Wilson loop in the boundary field theory. The Nambu-Goto action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Pavel Slepov

The central goal of jet quenching studies in high-energy nuclear collisions is the characterization of those QCD medium properties that are accessible by these probes. Most of the discussion in the last years has been focused on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-02 Carlota Andrés , Néstor Armesto , Matthew Luzum , Carlos A. Salgado , Pía Zurita

We study the consequences of including the running of the QCD coupling in the equation describing the evolution of the jet quenching parameter $\hat q$ in the double logarithmic approximation. To start with, we revisit the case of a fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-08 E. Iancu , D. N. Triantafyllopoulos

Within the picture of jet quenching induced by multiple parton scattering and gluon bremsstrahlung, medium modification of parton fragmentation functions and therefore the suppression of large transverse momentum hadron spectra are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Xiao-Fang Chen , Carsten Greiner , Enke Wang , Xin-Nian Wang , Zhe Xu

Parton propagation in dense nuclear matter results in elastic, inelastic and coherent multiple soft scattering with the in-medium color charges. Such scattering leads to calculable modifications of the hadron production cross section that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ivan Vitev

Jet quenching parameter $\hat{q}$ is essential for characterizing the interaction strength between jet partons and nuclear matter. Based on the quark-meson (QM) model, we develop a new framework for calculating $\hat{q}$ at finite chemical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-11 Jing Wu , Shanshan Cao , Feng Li

Jet quenching - the modification of high-energy jets in the quark-gluon plasma - has been extensively studied through weakly coupled scattering amplitudes embedded in parton-shower frameworks. These models, often combined with bulk…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Ismail Soudi , Adam Takacs

The Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model for jet propagation and interaction in quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has been used to study jet quenching in high-energy heavy-lion collisions. The suppression of single inclusive jet production, medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Yayun He , Shanshan Cao , Wei Chen , Tan Luo , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang