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Recently, it has been demonstrated that the chemical composition of jets in heavy ion collisions is significantly altered compared to jets in the vacuum. This signal can be used to probe the medium formed in nuclear collisions. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Liu , R. J. Fries

We demonstrate that jet observables are highly sensitive to the characteristics of the vacuum and the in-medium QCD parton showers and propose techniques that exploit this sensitivity to constrain the mechanism of quark and gluon energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-08 Ivan Vitev , Ben-Wei Zhang

Jet interactions with the color-deconfined QCD medium in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are conventionally assessed by measuring the modification of the distributions of jet observables with respect to their baselines in proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 Ran Li , Yi-Lun Du , Shanshan Cao

Jet quenching has long been regarded as one of the key signatures for the formation of quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions. Despite significant efforts, the separate identification of quark and gluon jet quenching has remained as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-19 Shan-Liang Zhang , Jinfeng Liao , Guang-You Qin , Enke Wang , Hongxi Xing

With deep learning techniques, the degree of modification of energetic jets that traversed hot QCD medium can be identified on a jet-by-jet basis. Due to the strong correlations between the degree of jet modification and its traversed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-04 Yi-Lun Du , Daniel Pablos , Konrad Tywoniuk

Understanding the inner working of the quark-gluon plasma requires complete and precise jet substructure studies in heavy ion collisions. In this proceeding we discuss the use of quark and gluon jets as independent probes, and how their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Yang-Ting Chien

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

Jet quenching has been one of the most important indicators that ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions produce a deconfined state of quarks and gluons, known as the Quark-Gluon Plasma. While the quenching of jets traditionally refers to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-01-04 Jaime Norman

Jet charge characterizes the electric charge distribution inside a jet. In this talk we make the first theoretical study of jet charge in high-energy nuclear collisions and calculate numerically the medium alternations of jet charge due to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-13 Shi-Yong Chen , Ben-Wei Zhang , En-Ke Wang

We discuss the flavor of leading jet partons as a valuable probe of nuclear matter. We point out that the coupling of jets to nuclear matter naturally leads to an alteration of jet chemistry even at high transverse momentum $p_T$. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Liu , R. J. Fries

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 jet quenching phenomenon in heavy ion collisions provides a strong evidence of the modification of parton shower in the quark-gluon plasma. This contribution focuses on the hard probes of QGP using jets and summarizes the new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-20 Yang-Ting Chien

In this work, we expand the scope of the JETSCAPE framework to investigate the dependence of the jet nuclear modification factor, ${R_{AA}}$, on the jet radius parameter ($R$) for broader area jet cones, going all the way up to $R$ = 1.0.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-03 Manaswini Priyadarshini , Om Shahi , Vaishnavi Sathe , Prabhakar Palni

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

We present a new study of jet interactions in the quark-gluon plasma created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, using a multistage event generator within the JETSCAPE framework. We focus on medium-induced modifications in the rate of…

Energy correlators have recently attracted significant attention in the study of heavy ion collisions due to their potential to robustly connect experimental measurements with an underlying quantum field theoretic description. While…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 João Barata , Ian Moult , Andrey V. Sadofyev , João M. Silva

Deep learning techniques have shown the capability to identify the degree of energy loss of high-energy jets traversing hot QCD medium on a jet-by-jet basis. The average amount of quenching of quark and gluon jets in hot QCD medium actually…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-04 Yi-Lun Du , Daniel Pablos , Konrad Tywoniuk

Quark and gluon jets traversing through a quark-gluon plasma not only lose their energies but also can undergo flavor conversions. The conversion rates via the elastic $q(\bar q)g\to gq(\bar q)$ and the inelastic $q\bar q\leftrightarrow gg$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Liu , C. M. Ko , B. W. Zhang

We propose a new phenomenological approach to establish QCD factorization of jet cross sections in the heavy-ion environment. Starting from a factorization formalism in proton-proton collisions, we introduce medium modified jet functions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 Jian-Wei Qiu , Felix Ringer , Nobuo Sato , Pia Zurita

We present an analysis of the role that the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) resolution length, the minimal distance by which two nearby colored charges in a jet must be separated such that they engage with the plasma independently, plays in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 J. Casalderrey-Solana , G. Milhano , D. Pablos , K. Rajagopal