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Diffusion wake accompanying a Mach cone is a unique feature of the medium response to projectiles traveling at a speed faster than the velocity of sound. This is also the case for jet-medium interaction inside the quark-gluon plasma in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Zhong Yang , Xin-Nian Wang

Energetic quarks and gluons traversing a hot and dense quark-gluon plasma deposit energy and momentum into the medium before hadronizing to collimated sprays of particles, known as jets. This energy-momentum deposition is expected to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-03 CMS Collaboration

Jet-induced diffusion wake in heavy-ion collisions has a unique 3D structure as manifested in the jet-hadron correlations in rapidity and azimuthal angle. The rapidity asymmetry observable in dijets provides a robust measurement of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Zhong Yang , Xin-Nian Wang

In this Research Perspective, we briefly review the diffusion wake, a distinctive consequence of the Mach-cone wake induced by the supersonic jets in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The diffusion wake depletes soft hadrons in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Zhong Yang , Xin-Nian Wang

Diffusion wake is an unambiguous part of the jet-induced medium response in high-energy heavy-ion collisions that leads to a depletion of soft hadrons in the opposite direction of the jet propagation. New experimental data on $Z$-hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-22 Zhong Yang , Wei Chen , Yayun He , Weiyao Ke , Longgang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

The diffusion wake accompanying the jet-induced Mach cone provides a unique probe of the properties of quark-gluon plasma in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. It can be characterized by a depletion of soft hadrons in the opposite direction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-15 Zhong Yang , Tan Luo , Wei Chen , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

This paper presents a measurement of jet-track correlations in photon-jet events, using 1.72 nb$^{-1}$ of Pb+Pb data at $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}$ = 5.02 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events with energetic photon-jet pairs…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-06 ATLAS Collaboration

High momentum jets and hadrons are important probes for the quark gluon plasma (QGP) formed in nuclear collisions at high energies. We investigate how fluctuations in the background density of the QGP and fluctuations in the spatial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-12-18 Ricardo Rodriguez-Pedraza , Rainer J. Fries

Jet propagation is shown to produce Mach-cone-like medium excitation inside a quark-gluon plasma. However, only deflection of such medium excitation and jet shower partons by radial flow leads to double-peaked dihadron correlation in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-14 Han-Lin Li , Fu-Ming Liu , Guo-Liang Ma , Xin-Nian Wang , Yan Zhu

The triangular enhancement of the rapidity distribution of hadrons produced in p+A reactions relative to p+p is a leading order in A^{1/3}/log(s) violation of longitudinal boost invariance at high energies. In A+A reactions this leads to a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 A. Adil , M. Gyulassy

The hot, dense and strongly interacting medium known as the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Early in the collisions, quarks and gluons from the incoming nuclei…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-03-14 Joel Mazer

Jet-induced medium excitation is a crucial part of jet interactions with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and has recently been confirmed by experiment for the first time. Based on the AMPT model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Ao Luo , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

We present preliminary results from di-hadron correlations in azimuth (phi) and pseudo-rapidity (eta) induced by hadronic di-jets produced in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV. The jet-like near-side peak has been isolated from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 Andreas Morsch

Di-hadron correlations and jet-hadron correlations are frequently used to study interactions of the Quark Gluon Plasma with the hard partons that form jets. The existing background subtraction methods for these studies depend on several…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-04-29 Natasha Sharma , Joel Mazer , Meghan Stuart , Christine Nattrass

Mid-rapidity azimuthal correlations probe di-jets originating mainly from gluon-gluon hard-scattering. Measurements of such correlations have revealed significant (gluon-)jet modification in central Au+Au collisions. Azimuthal correlations…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Fuqiang Wang

$\gamma$-jet production is considered one of the best probes of the hot quark-gluon plasma in high-energy heavy-ion collisions since the direct $\gamma$ can be used to gauge the initial energy and momentum of the associated jet. This is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-20 Tan Luo , Shanshan Cao , Yayun He , Xin-Nian Wang

Dihadron azimuthal correlations in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$=200 GeV have been explored by using a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model. In order to obtain the contributions from jet-medium interactions, the combined harmonic flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-09-27 Yu-hui Zhu , Y. G. Ma , J. H. Chen , G. L. Ma , S. Zhang , C. Zhong

We review some recent experimental and theoretical work on the correlation among hadrons produced at intermediate $p_T$ at RHIC. The topics include: forward and backward asymmetry with and without trigger at mid-rapidity,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rudolph C. Hwa

We investigate long range rapidity correlations of pairs of prompt photon and jet in the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework in proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions at RHIC and the LHC. We show that photon-jet correlations exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-30 Amir H. Rezaeian

Dijet, dihadron, hadron-jet angular correlations have been reckoned as important probes of the transverse momentum broadening effects in relativistic nuclear collisions. When a pair of high-energy jets created in hard collisions traverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-11 Lin Chen , Guang-You Qin , Shu-Yi Wei , Bo-Wen Xiao , Han-Zhong Zhang
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