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We discuss the evolution of an energetic jet which propagates through a dense quark-gluon plasma and radiates gluons due to its interactions with the medium. Within perturbative QCD, this evolution can be described as a stochastic branching…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Miguel A. Escobedo , Edmond Iancu

The modification of the hard core of jets in a dense QCD medium is studied. In particular, we consider partons which possess a virtuality somewhat larger than the multiple scattering scale of the medium ($\hat{q} \tau$, where $\hat{q}$ is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-12 Shanshan Cao , Chathuranga Sirimanna , Abhijit Majumder

The quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions is anisotropic throughout its evolution. This anisotropy changes the physics of jet-medium interaction, making it dependent on the momentum direction of the jet. In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-09 Sigtryggur Hauksson , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

Some of the most important probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy ion collisions come from the analysis of how the shape and energy of jets are modified by passage through QGP. We model an ensemble of back-to-back dijets…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Jasmine Brewer , Krishna Rajagopal , Andrey Sadofyev , Wilke van der Schee

We present a unique signal of jet-induced medium excitations: the enhancement of baryon-to-meson ratios around the quenched jets.To illustrate this, we study jet-particle correlations and the distributions of jet-induced identified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Ao Luo , Ya-Xian Mao , Guang-You Qin , En-Ke Wang , Han-Zhong Zhang

Energetic jets that traverse the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions serve as excellent probes to study this new state of deconfined QCD matter. Presently, however, our ability to achieve a crisp theoretical interpretation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Daniel Pablos , Alba Soto-Ontoso

The properties of $\gamma$--jet pairs emitted in heavy-ion collisions provide an accurate mean to perform a tomographic measurement of the medium created in the collision through the study of the medium modified jet properties. The idea is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Yaxian Mao

The phenomenon of jet supression observed in highly energetic heavy ion collisions is discussed. The focus is devoted to the stunning applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to describe these real time processes, hard to be illuminated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose D. Edelstein , Carlos A. Salgado

We compute medium corrections to the energy-energy correlator (EEC) for jets in electron-nucleus collisions at leading order in the QCD coupling and the interaction of the jet with the medium. We derive an analytical expression for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Yu Fu , Berndt Müller , Chathuranga Sirimanna

The characterization of the jet substructure can give insight into the microscopic nature of the modification induced on high-momentum partons by the Quark-Gluon Plasma that is formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Jet shapes…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 D. Caffarri

Hard-jet correlations probe parton energy loss and the microscopic structure of the quark-gluon plasma formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The correlation of high-$p_\mathrm{T}$ jets with other jets, hadrons, or electroweak…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-02 Riccardo Longo

Jet energy loss in heavy ion collisions, as quantified by the traditional observable of high $p_T$ hadron's nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$, provides highly informative "imaging" of the hot medium created in heavy ion collisions. There…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Shuzhe Shi , Jiechen Xu , Jinfeng Liao , Miklos Gyulassy

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

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

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

Advances in measurements of jets and collective phenomena in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions have led to further understanding of the properties of the medium created in such collisions. Measurements of the correlations between the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-03-27 Alice Ohlson

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

The mass shift $\Delta m_{\rho}$ and width broadening $\Delta\Gamma_{\rho}$ of $\rho$ mesons produced in heavy ion collisions is estimated using a general formula which relates the in-medium mass shift of a particle to the real part of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. L. Eletsky , B. L. Ioffe , J. I. Kapusta

The evolution of jets showers in high energy nuclear collisions is influenced in various ways by the presence of a surrounding medium. The interaction of jet constituents with the medium can happen during the partonic stage of the jet,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-22 Arjun Sengupta , Rainer J. Fries

Two suggested models of jet fragmentation in a quark-gluon plasma have been tested, combined and further developed. This has been done by generating hard processes in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=2.76$ GeV in PYTHIA 8 with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-15 Viktor Linders