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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

Two types of penetrating probes, direct photon and QCD jets, are investigated in the background of a small and rapidly expanding droplet of quark-gluon plasma. The additional thermal electromagnetic radiation results in a $\sim$50\%…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-14 Chun Shen , Chanwook Park , Jean-François Paquet , Gabriel S. Denicol , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

The striking resemblance of high multiplicity proton-proton (pp) collisions at the LHC to heavy ion collisions challenges our conventional wisdom on the formation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). A consistent explanation of the collectivity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-30 Liang Zheng , Guang-Hui Zhang , Yun-Fan Liu , Zi-Wei Lin , Qi-Ye Shou , Zhong-Bao Yin

Energetic jets that traverse the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions serve as excellent probes to study this new state of deconfined QCD matter. Presently, however, our ability to achieve a crisp theoretical interpretation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Daniel Pablos , Alba Soto-Ontoso

Time evolution of a "little bang" created in heavy ion collisions can be divided into two phases, the pre-equilibrium and hydrodynamic. At what moment the evolution becomes hydrodynamic and is there any universality in the hydrodynamic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Lublinsky , E. Shuryak

Hard-jet correlations probe parton energy loss and the microscopic structure of the quark-gluon plasma formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The correlation of high-$p_\mathrm{T}$ jets with other jets, hadrons, or electroweak…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-02 Riccardo Longo

The ability to measure detailed aspects of the substructure of high-energy jets traversing the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has provided a new window into its internal dynamics. However, drawing robust conclusions from traditional jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-08 Carlota Andres , Fabio Dominguez , Jack Holguin , Cyrille Marquet , Ian Moult

Heavy ion collisions quickly form a droplet of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) with a remarkably small viscosity. We give an accessible introduction to how to study this smallest and hottest droplet of liquid made on earth and why it is so…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Wit Busza , Krishna Rajagopal , Wilke van der Schee

Quark-gluon plasma (QGP), when viewed at length scales of order the inverse of its temperature, behaves as a strongly-coupled liquid. However, when it is probed with sufficiently high momentum transfer, asymptotic freedom mandates the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Hannah Bossi , Arjun Kudinoor , Ian Moult , Daniel Pablos , Ananya Rai , Krishna Rajagopal

We study the interplay between the flow and hydrodynamic gradients in jet quenching at first order in opacity. We find that the mixed flow-gradient contributions in jet quenching are enhanced by the medium length, and survive in the eikonal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Matvey V. Kuzmin , Xoán Mayo López , Jared Reiten , Andrey V. Sadofyev

We report a systematic study of Z+jet correlation in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC by combining the next-leading-order matrix elements calculations with matched parton shower in Sherpa for the initial Z+jet production, and Linear Boltzmann…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Shan-Liang Zhang , Tan Luo , Xin-Nian Wang , Ben-Wei Zhang

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 introduced recently a new theoretical scheme which accounts for hydrodynamically expanding bulk matter, jets, and the interaction between the two. Important for the particle production at intermediate values of transverse momentum (p_t)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 K. Werner

The observation of collective flow phenomena in small collision systems challenges our understanding of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation and evolution. This complexity lies in the initial geometries, which are influenced by both nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-23 STAR Collaboration

Parton energy loss in the hot QCD medium will manifest itself not only in leading hadron spectra but also in reconstructed jet productions in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. In this paper we report on recent theoretical efforts in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Ben-Wei Zhang

The jet quenching phenomenon in heavy ion collisions provides a strong evidence of the modification of parton shower in the quark-gluon plasma. This contribution focuses on the hard probes of QGP using jets and summarizes the new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-20 Yang-Ting Chien

In high energy nuclear collisions, heavy flavor tagged jets are useful hard probes to study the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this talk, we present the first theoretical prediction of the $D^0$ meson radial distributions in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-23 Sa Wang , Wei Dai , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

Energy-energy correlators (EECs) provide a sensitive probe of both perturbative and nonperturbative dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Jet-medium interactions enhance particle multiplicity within the jet cone, which must be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Rushil Saraswat , Aditya Prasad Dash , Huan Zhong Huang , Gang Wang , Xin-Nian Wang , Zhong Yang

The flow pattern and evolution of the medium created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions can have significant influence on the energy loss of hard partons traversing the medium. We demonstrate that within a range of assumptions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Renk

Jets with transverse energy of few TeV are becoming now common in LHC data. Most of these jets are produced by QCD processes and some from the collimated decay of highly boosted objects like W, Z, H0 and top-quark. The study of such QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-22 Ehud Duchovni