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Jet quenching has been established as one of the main tools to study the properties of the medium produced in heavy ion collisions. Most of the experimental effort has been, up to now, on the measurements of inclusive particle suppression.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Carlos A. Salgado

High-energy heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider have evolved from qualitative understanding into precise extraction of the properties of the Quantum Chromodynamics medium at extremely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-03 Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

We discuss non-perturbative QCD contributions to jet observables, computing their dependence on the jet radius R, and on the colour and transverse momentum of the parton initiating the jet. We show, using analytic QCD models of power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-30 Mrinal Dasgupta , Lorenzo Magnea , Gavin P. Salam

We define a new strategy to scan jet substructure in heavy-ion collisions. The scope is multifold: (i) test the dominance of vacuum jet dynamics at early times, (ii) capture the transition from coherent to incoherent jet energy loss, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-05 Leticia Cunqueiro , Daniel Pablos , Alba Soto-Ontoso , Martin Spousta , Adam Takacs , Marta Verweij

Using QCD kinetic theory, we study momentum broadening of jets using the full broadening probability (elastic collision kernel) $C(\mathbf{q_\perp})$ extracted during simulations of the nonequilibrium initial stages in heavy-ion collisions.…

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

Jet quenching is a phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions arising from jet interactions with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Its study is complicated by the interplay of multiple physics processes that affect jet observables. In addition,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Yilun Wu , Yi Chen , Julia Velkovska

Jet quenching and more generally physics at high transverse momentum P_T scales is a cornerstone of the heavy-ion physics program at the LHC. In this work, the current understanding of jet quenching in terms of a QCD shower evolution being…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Thorsten Renk

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

Hard probes created through large momentum transfers are used to study the properties of QCD matter created in heavy-ion collisions, by comparing the measurements to those in p+p collisions. Jets, and the "quenching" or suppression of jets…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-08 Nihar Ranjan Sahoo

The striking suppression and modification patterns that are observed in jet observables measured in heavy-ion collisions with respect to the proton-proton baseline have the potential to constrain the spatio-temporal branching process of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-16 Konrad Tywoniuk , Yacine Mehtar-Tani

Jet modification in heavy-ion collisions is an important probe of the nature and structure of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in these collisions and also encodes information about how the wakes that jets excite in a droplet of QGP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-09 Jasmine Brewer , Quinn Brodsky , Krishna Rajagopal

Measurements of jet substructure in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions indicate that interactions with the quark-gluon plasma quench the jet showering process. Modern data-driven methods have shown promise in probing these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-02 Umar Sohail Qureshi , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the lattice QCD Monte-Carlo simulations are important ``experimental'' tools for investigating the properties of the medium described by QCD under extreme conditions. After briefly examining their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Masakiyo Kitazawa

Jet physics in relativistic heavy ion collisions, which combines perturbative QCD jet production with quark and gluon energy loss and in-medium parton shower modification, has emerged as a powerful tool to probe the properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-24 Ben-Wei Zhang , Yuncun He , R. B. Neufeld , Ivan Vitev , Enke Wang

Collisions of heavy ion nuclei at relativistic speeds (close to the speed of light) creates a high temperature and very dense form of matter, now known to consist of de-confined quarks and gluons, named the quark gluon plasma (QGP). In this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-03-13 Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

The method to simulate the rescattering and energy loss of hard partons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions has been developed. The model is a fast Monte-Carlo tool introduced to modify a standard PYTHIA jet event. The full heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 I. P. Lokhtin , A. M. Snigirev

Since the start of the LHC heavy ion program, a multitude of rather different high transverse momentum (P_T) observables has become available to study the physics of the interaction of hard partons with a QCD medium. Similarly, multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-29 Thorsten Renk

Current phenomenological studies of jet observables at colliders are clearly limited by the theoretical uncertainties inherent in the next-to-leading order QCD description. We discuss the recent progress made towards the calculation of QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Gehrmann

The suppression and modification of high-energy objects, like jets, in heavy-ion collisions provide an important window to access the degrees of freedom of the quark-gluon plasma on different length scales. Despite increasingly precise and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-01 Jasmine Brewer

Modifications of jets in the existence of a hot and dense QCD medium have recently attracted a lot of attentions. In this talk, we demonstrate how jet-medium interactions change the behavior of jets by offering examples of inclusive jet and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Ben-Wei Zhang , Yuncun He , Enke Wang