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I review recent developments in the phenomenological study of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) transport properties based on a personal selection of results that were presented at Quark Matter 2019. The constraints on the temperature dependence…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Chun Shen

In the first talk I discuss the usefulness of jet grooming for testing jet quenching mechanisms, and I present a calculation of soft-drop jet mass distribution in proton-proton and heavy ion collisions. In the second talk I discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-25 Yang-Ting Chien

We study evolution equations describing jet propagation through quark--gluon plasma (QGP). In particular we investigate the contribution of momentum transfer during branching and find that such a contribution is sizeable. Furthermore, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-23 E. Blanco , K. Kutak , W. Placzek , M. Rohrmoser , R. Straka

The quark gluon plasma (QGP) is one of the most interesting forms of matter providing us with insight on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the early universe. It is believed that the heavy-ion collision experiments at the Relativistic Heavy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-01 Wenkai Fan

The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is an exotic phase of matter, composed of deconfined quarks and gluons and is briefly created in heavy-ion collisions (HIC) at the LHC and at the RHIC. High-energy, self-collimated structures of final-state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-10 Eamonn Weitz

Using a holographic QCD model augmented by Bayesian inference, we calculate key transport coefficients of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP)$\text{-}$including the drag force, jet quenching parameter, heavy quark diffusion coefficient, and shear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Bing Chen , Liqiang Zhu , Xun Chen , Defu Hou , Xurong Chen

Using combined data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion and Large Hadron Colliders, we constrain the shear and bulk viscosities of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at temperatures of ${\sim\,}150{-}350$ MeV. We use Bayesian inference to translate…

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

Heavy ion collisions at high energies can be used as an interesting way to recreate and study the medium of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We particularly investigate the jets produced in hard binary collisions and their interactions with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-11 Martin Rohrmoser , Krzysztof Kutak , Andreas van Hameren , Wiesław Płaczek , Konrad Tywoniuk

Realizing the full potential of interconnecting the large amounts of data created in physics experiments, phenomenological models and theory simulations requires robust tools for statistical inference. Here I review a particularly promising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-07 Alexander Rothkopf

Energy correlators have recently been proposed as a class of jet substructure observables that directly link experimental measurements of the asymptotic energy flux with the field theoretic description of the underlying microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 Carlota Andres , Fabio Dominguez , Jack Holguin , Cyrille Marquet , Ian Moult

Jets produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are modified compared to those in proton-proton collisions due to their interaction with the deconfined, strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this work, we employ machine learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-17 Yue Shi Lai , James Mulligan , Mateusz Płoskoń , Felix Ringer

A hot, dense medium called a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. Hard parton scatterings generate high momentum partons that traverse the medium, which then fragment into sprays of particle called…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-06-19 Megan Connors , Christine Nattrass , Rosi Reed , Sevil Salur

The study of heavy-ion collisions presents a challenge to both theoretical and experimental nuclear physics. Due to the extremely short lifetime and small size of the collision system, disentangling information provided by experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-27 Derek Everett

Jet modification in heavy-ion collisions provides microscopic access to the properties of the quark-gluon plasma. However, conventional approaches based on traditional global observables, such as \(R_{AA}\), capture limited information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Leonardo Lima da Silva , Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz

Hard probe tomography of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy ion collisions has long been a preeminent goal of the high-energy nuclear physics program. In service of this goal, the isotropic modification of jets and high-energy hadrons…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-20 Joseph Bahder , Hasan Rahman , Matthew D. Sievert , Ivan Vitev

We study parton energy-momentum exchange with the quark gluon plasma (QGP) within a multistage approach composed of in-medium DGLAP evolution at high virtuality, and (linearized) Boltzmann Transport formalism at lower virtuality. This…

Over the past 30 years, jet observables have proven to provide important information about the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. I review the challenges, results, and open problems of jet physics in heavy-ion collisions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-20 Barbara Betz

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

In the study of the quark-gluon plasma in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, hard and electromagnetic (EM) processes play an essential role as probes of the properties of the dense medium. They can be used to study a wide range of properties…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-24 Xin-Nian Wang