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Methodology is presented for analysis of three-particle correlation functions obtained in heavy ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. We show that harmonic correlations can be removed and jet driven correlations reliably extracted.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-24 N. N. Ajitanand , J. M. Alexander , Roy A. Lacey , A. Taranenko

Jets can be used to probe the physical properties of the high energy density matter created in collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Measurements of strong suppression of inclusive hadron distributions and di-hadron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Sevil Salur

The identification of jets and their constituents is one of the key problems and challenging task in heavy ion experiments such as experiments at RHIC and LHC. The presence of huge background of soft particles pose a curse for jet finding…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-10-18 Yogesh Verma , Satyajit Jena

In these proceedings, we briefly review how jets can be reconstructed in heavy-ion collisions. The main point we address is the subtraction of the large contamination from the underlying event background. We first present the main…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Gregory Soyez

Jets produced in high energy heavy ion collisions are quenched by the quark gluon plasma. Measurements of these jets are influenced by the methods used to suppress and subtract the large, fluctuating background and the assumptions inherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-03 Charles Hughes , Antonio Carlos Oliveira Da Silva , Christine Nattrass

Jet tomography is the analysis of the attenuation pattern of high transverse momentum hadrons to determine certain line integral transforms of the density profile of the QCD matter produced in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 M. Gyulassy , P. Levai , I. Vitev

Progress in the theoretical understanding of parton branching dynamics within an expanding Quark Gluon Plasma relies on detailed and fair comparisons with experimental data for reconstructed jets. Such comparisons are only meaningful when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 João Arruda Gonçalves , José Guilherme Milhano

The modification of quark- and gluon-initiated jets in the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has not yet received a definitive answer from experiments. In particular, the size of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Yueyang Ying

Subtraction of the large background in reconstruction is a key ingredient in jet studies in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. Here we address the question to which extent the most commonly used subtraction techniques are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Liliana Apolinário , Néstor Armesto , Leticia Cunqueiro

Jet quenching measurements using leading particles and their correlations suffer from known biases, which can be removed via direct reconstruction of jets in central heavy ion collisions. In this talk, we discuss several modern jet…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-09-10 Sevil Salur

Reconstructed jets in heavy ion collisions are a crucial tool for understanding the quark-gluon plasma. The separation of jets from the underlying event is necessary particularly in central heavy ion reactions in order to quantify medium…

We examine the problem of jet reconstruction at heavy-ion colliders using jet-area-based background subtraction tools as provided by FastJet. We use Monte Carlo simulations with and without quenching to study the performance of several jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-11 Matteo Cacciari , Juan Rojo , Gavin P. Salam , Gregory Soyez

Hard scattered partons are predicted to be well calibrated probes of the hot and dense medium produced in heavy ion collisions. Interactions of these partons with the medium w ill result in modifications of internal jet structure in Au+Au…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jan Kapitan

Whether quark- and gluon-initiated jets are modified differently by the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has thus far eluded a definitive experimental answer. A crucial complication for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Jasmine Brewer , Jesse Thaler , Andrew P. Turner

We apply a Dense Neural Network (DNN) approach to reconstruct jet momentum within a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) background, using simulated data from PYTHIA and Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) Models for comparative analysis. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Ran Li , Yi-Lun Du , Shanshan Cao

Discriminating between quark- and gluon-initiated jets has long been a central focus of jet substructure, leading to the introduction of numerous observables and calculations to high perturbative accuracy. At the same time, there have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Samuel Bright-Thonney , Ian Moult , Benjamin Nachman , Stefan Prestel

The classification of jets as quark- versus gluon-initiated is an important yet challenging task in the analysis of data from high-energy particle collisions and in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. The recent integration of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Alexis Romero , Daniel Whiteson , Michael Fenton , Julian Collado , Pierre Baldi

The different modifications of quark- and gluon-initiated jets in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has not yet received a definitive answer from experiments. In particular, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-01 Yueyang Ying , Jasmine Brewer , Yi Chen , Yen-Jie Lee

Modification of the hard jet substructure in terms of the Soft Drop jet grooming algorithm observables is studied for three different scenarios of jet quenching in a quark-gluon plasma: i) an explicit enhancement of the parton splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-06 K. Lapidus , M. H. Oliver

We introduce a new approach for jet physics studies using subtracted cumulants of jet substructure observables, which are shown to be insensitive to contributions from soft-particle emissions uncorrelated with the hard process. Therefore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-06 Yang-Ting Chien , Daekyoung Kang , Kyle Lee , Yiannis Makris