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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

Similar to the radiative parton energy loss due to gluon bremsstrahlung, elastic energy loss of a parton undergoing multiple scattering in a finite medium is demonstrated to be sensitive to interference effect. The interference between…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Xin-Nian Wang

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

Going beyond the simplified gluonic cascades, we introduce both gluon and quark degrees of freedom for partonic cascades inside the medium. We then solve the set of coupled evolution equations numerically with splitting kernels calculated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-12 Souvik Priyam Adhya , Carlos A. Salgado , Martin Spousta , Konrad Tywoniuk

The jet quenching parameter describes the momentum broadening of a high-energy parton moving through the quark-gluon plasma. Following an approach originally proposed by Caron-Huot, we discuss how one can extract information on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-05-02 Marco Panero , Kari Rummukainen , Andreas Schäfer

These proceedings review the application of Bayesian inference to high momentum transfer probes of the quark--gluon plasma (QGP). Bayesian inference techniques are introduced, highlighting critical components to consider when comparing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-31 Raymond Ehlers

In the context of the hybrid strong/weak coupling model for jet quenching, we perform a global fit to hadron and jet data in the most central bins both at RHIC and LHC. The qualitative and quantitative success of the analysis is attributed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Zachary Hulcher , Guilherme Milhano , Daniel Pablos , Krishna Rajagopal

The Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model for jet propagation and interaction in quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has been used to study jet quenching in high-energy heavy-lion collisions. The suppression of single inclusive jet production, medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Yayun He , Shanshan Cao , Wei Chen , Tan Luo , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

We review recent calculations of the probability that a hard parton radiates an additional energy fraction due to scattering in spatially extended matter, and we discuss their application to the suppression of leading hadron spectra in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Urs Achim Wiedemann

We review the properties of energetic parton propagation in hot or cold QCD matter, as obtained in recent works. Advances in understanding the energy loss - collisional and radiative - are summarized, with emphasis on the latter: it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Baier , D. Schiff , B. G. Zakharov

The effect of medium-induced parton energy loss on jet fragmentation is studied in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. It is shown that an effective jet fragmentation function can be extracted from the inclusive $p_T$ spectrum of charged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Xin-Nian Wang , Zheng Huang

Jet measurements in heavy ion collisions can provide constraints on the properties of the quark gluon plasma, but the kinematic reach is limited by a large, fluctuating background. We present a novel application of symbolic regression to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-12 Tanner Mengel , Patrick Steffanic , Charles Hughes , Antonio Carlos Oliveira da Silva , Christine Nattrass

I summarize the recent advances in jet tomographic studies of cold and hot nuclear matter based on perturbative QCD calculations of medium-induced gluon bremsstrahlung. Quantitative applications to ultrarelativistic heavy ion reactions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ivan Vitev

The ATLAS Collaboration recently reported strong modifications of dijet properties in heavy ion collisions. In this work, we discuss to what extent these first data constrain already the microscopic mechanism underlying jet quenching.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Jose Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann

Progress in the theoretical understanding of parton branching dynamics within an expanding Quark Gluon Plasma relies on detailed and fair comparisons with experimental data for reconstructed jets. Such comparisons are only meaningful when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 João Arruda Gonçalves , José Guilherme Milhano

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

One of the most active areas of investigation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is the study of the jet quenching phenomenon whereby hard partons lose their energy as they traverse the hot, dense matter created in such collisions. Strong…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthew Nguyen

We present a first-principle computation of the jet quenching parameter, which describes the momentum broadening of a high-energy parton moving through the deconfined state of QCD matter at high temperature. Following an idea originally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-09 Marco Panero , Kari Rummukainen , Andreas Schäfer

The description of the in-medium modifications of partonic showers has been at the forefront of current theoretical and experimental efforts in heavy-ion collisions. It provides a unique laboratory to extend our knowledge frontier of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Liliana Apolinário

The gluonic contribution to the nuclear modification factor R_AA is investigated for central Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV employing a perturbative QCD-based parton cascade including radiative processes. A flat quenching pattern…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-30 O. Fochler , Z. Xu , C. Greiner