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Experimental data, theoretical ideas and models concerning jet fragmentation and the hadronization process are reviewed, concentrating on the following topics: factorization and small-x resummation of fragmentation functions, hadronization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 B. R. Webber

Heavy-quark jets are important in many of today's collider studies and searches, yet predictions for them are subject to much larger uncertainties than for light jets. This is because of strong enhancements in higher orders from large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 Andrea Banfi , Gavin P. Salam , Giulia Zanderighi

Both charged hadrons and D mesons are considered to be excellent probes of QCD matter created in ultra relativistic heavy ion collisions. Surprisingly, recent experimental observations at LHC show the same jet suppression for these two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-02-05 Magdalena Djordjevic

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

The jet angularities are a class of jet substructure observables which characterize the angular and momentum distribution of particles within jets. These observables are sensitive to momentum scales ranging from perturbative hard…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-12-02 ALICE Collaboration

Jet substructure variables aim to reveal details of the parton fragmentation and hadronization processes that create a jet. By removing collinear radiation while maintaining the soft radiation components, one can construct CollinearDrop jet…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-07-19 Youqi Song

We present a comprehensive study of jet substructure modifications in high-energy heavy-ion collisions using both inclusive jets and $\gamma$-tagged jets, based on a multi-stage jet evolution model within the Monte Carlo framework JETSCAPE.…

We provide a quantum field theory based description of the nonperturbative effects from hadronization for soft drop groomed jet mass distributions using the soft-collinear effective theory and the coherent branching formalism. There are two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-04 André H. Hoang , Sonny Mantry , Aditya Pathak , Iain W. Stewart

We consider the fragmentation of heavy quarks into heavy-flavoured hadrons, specifically the production of charmed mesons in $e^+e^-$ collisions, at different centre-of-mass energies. We focus our attention on the ratio of moments of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 Matteo Cacciari , Andrea Ghira , Simone Marzani , Giovanni Ridolfi

Soft drop, a technique originally developed in the context of jet physics in proton-proton collisions in order to reduce the contamination from non-perturbative effects, is applied to event shapes in electron-positron annihilation. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-27 Jeremy Baron , Simone Marzani , Vincent Theeuwes

We calculate the lowest order charm and beauty parton distribution functions in and fragmentation functions into D and B mesons using the operator definitions of factorized perturbative QCD. In the vacuum, we find the leading corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Rishi Sharma , Ivan Vitev , Ben-Wei Zhang

Boosted resonances is a highly probable and enthusiastic scenario in any process probing the electroweak scale. Such objects when decaying into jets can easily blend with the cornucopia of jets from hard relative light QCD states. We review…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Leandro G. Almeida , Raz Alon , Michael Spannowsky

In these proceedings, we discuss the role of heavy quark mass on the formation of parton showers. Mass effects are not well understood when parton branching occurs in nuclear matter, such as the quark-gluon plasma. Recently, a theoretically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-26 Ivan Vitev

Recent progress in the perturbative analysis of hadronic jets, especially in the context of hadron colliders, is discussed. The characteristic feature of this work is the emergence of a level of precision in the study of the strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. D. Ellis

Observables which distinguish boosted topologies from QCD jets are playing an increasingly important role at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These observables are often used in conjunction with jet grooming algorithms, which reduce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Andrew J. Larkoski , Ian Moult , Duff Neill

We introduce a new jet substructure technique called "soft drop declustering", which recursively removes soft wide-angle radiation from a jet. The soft drop algorithm depends on two parameters--a soft threshold $z_\text{cut}$ and an angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-03 Andrew J. Larkoski , Simone Marzani , Gregory Soyez , Jesse Thaler

This article presents measurements of the groomed jet radius and momentum splitting fraction in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Inclusive charged-particle jets are reconstructed at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-06-22 ALICE Collaboration

Studying heavy-flavour mesons and baryons in hadronic collisions provides unique insights into the properties of heavy-quark hadronisation amid large partonic densities, where novel mechanisms beyond in-vacuum fragmentation may emerge.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-07-19 Jonghan Park

We show the sensitivity of groomed jet substructure measurements to the finite resolution power of the QGP to disentangle multiple energetic partons, as produced by QCD jets, that traverse it simultaneously. We illustrate these effects by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Guilherme Milhano , Daniel Pablos , Krishna Rajagopal

We develop a factorization framework to compute the double differential cross section in soft drop groomed jet mass and groomed jet radius. We describe the effective theories in the large, intermediate, and small groomed jet radius regions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Aditya Pathak , Iain W. Stewart , Varun Vaidya , Lorenzo Zoppi