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Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are a window of opportunity to study QCD matter under extreme conditions of temperature and density, such as the quark-gluon plasma. Among the several possibilities, the study of jet quenching -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-26 Liliana Apolinário , Néstor Armesto , Guilherme Milhano , Carlos A. Salgado

The study of the structure of strongly interacting dense matter via hard jets is reviewed. High momentum partons produced in hard collisions produce a shower of gluons prior to undergoing the non-perturbative process of hadronization. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-14 A. Majumder , M. Van Leeuwen

The computation of radiative energy loss in a finite size QCD medium with dynamical constituents is a key ingredient for obtaining reliable predictions for jet quenching in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. We here present a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-01-07 Magdalena Djordjevic

The effect of multiple scatterings on the propagation of hard partonic jets in a dense nuclear medium is studied in the framework of deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) off a large nucleus. Power counting arguments based on the Glauber improved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Guang-You Qin , Abhijit Majumder

The transport coefficient $\hat{q}$ plays a pivotal role in describing the phenomenon of jet quenching in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. It is challenging to compute this coefficient…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-15 Amit Kumar , Abhijit Majumder , Chiho Nonaka

Cold nuclear matter effects in reactions with nuclei at a future electron-ion collider (EIC) lead to a modification of semi-inclusive hadron production, jet cross sections, and jet substructure when compared to the vacuum. At leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-21 Matthew D. Sievert , Ivan Vitev

High-pT particle production is suppressed in heavy ion collisions due to parton energy loss in dense QCD matter. Here we present a systematic comparison of two different theoretical approximations to parton energy loss calculations: the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 M. van Leeuwen

Multiple scattering, modified fragmentation functions and radiative energy loss of a heavy quark propagating in a nuclear medium are investigated in perturbative QCD. Because of the quark mass dependence of the gluon formation time, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

At low to moderate collision energies where the parton formation time $\tau_F$ is not small compared to the nuclear crossing time, the finite nuclear thickness significantly affects the energy density $\epsilon(t)$ and net conserved-charge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Todd Mendenhall , Zi-Wei Lin

In this work, real photon production scattering kernels from jet-medium interactions in the QCD medium are perturbatively calculated using the higher-twist (HT) formalism. Focus is given towards real photon production from a highly virtual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Amit Kumar , Gojko Vujanovic

We report on recent calculations of the medium-induced gluon radiation off hard partons. The employed path-integral formalism reduces in limiting cases to the main ``jet quenching'' results of the existing literature. Moreover, it describes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Urs Achim Wiedemann

Jet production and jet substructure modification in heavy-ion collisions have played an essential role in revealing the in-medium evolution of parton showers and the determination of the properties of strongly-interacting matter under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Hai Tao Li , Ivan Vitev

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 quenching has become a fundamental tool to study the hot QCD matter produced in heavy ion collisions. While important theoretical and experimental advances have been made in the last two decades, the extraction of the medium properties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-30 Xabier Feal

We extend our investigation of heavy quark transport coefficients in the effective dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) -- which reproduces nonperturbative QCD phenomena in the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) according to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-08 Ilia Grishmanovskii , Taesoo Song , Carsten Greiner , Elena Bratkovskaya

The suppression of high $p_{T}$ hadron production in heavy ion collisions is thought to be due to energy loss by gluon radiation off hard partons in a QCD medium. Existing models of QCD radiative energy loss in a color-charged medium give…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Marta Verweij

Hard partons moving through a dense QCD medium lose energy by radiative emissions and elastic scatterings. Deposition of the radiative contribution into the medium requires rescattering of the radiated gluons. We compute the total energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-29 G. -Y. Qin , A. Majumder , H. Song , U. Heinz

The main focus of this article is to obtain various transport coefficients for a hot QCD medium that is produced while colliding two heavy nuclei ultra-relativistically. As the hot QCD medium follows dissipative hydrodynamics while…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Sukanya Mitra , Vinod Chandra

When an energetic parton traversing the QCD medium, it may suffer multiple scatterings and lose energy. This jet quenching phenomenon may lead to the suppression of leading hadron productions as well as medium modifications of full jet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Ben-Wei Zhang , Guo-Yang Ma , Wei Dai , Sa Wang , Shan-Liang Zhang

We compute the double differential inclusive spectrum for the emission of a soft gluon from a color-singlet $q\bar q$ pair traversing a dense QCD medium. Our results extend the existing literature by simultaneously incorporating both single…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-09 Matvey V. Kuzmin , João M. Silva