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Heavy ion collisions at high energies can be used as an interesting way to recreate and study the medium of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We particularly investigate the jets produced in hard binary collisions and their interactions with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-11 Martin Rohrmoser , Krzysztof Kutak , Andreas van Hameren , Wiesław Płaczek , Konrad Tywoniuk

Jet quenching in high-energy heavy-ion collisions can be used to probe properties of hot and dense quark-gluon plasma. We provide a brief introduction to the concept and framework for the study of jet quenching. Different approaches and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 Guang-You Qin , Xin-Nian Wang

Quark-gluon plasma (QGP), when viewed at length scales of order the inverse of its temperature, behaves as a strongly-coupled liquid. However, when it is probed with sufficiently high momentum transfer, asymptotic freedom mandates the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Hannah Bossi , Arjun Kudinoor , Ian Moult , Daniel Pablos , Ananya Rai , Krishna Rajagopal

Jet quenching - the modification of high-energy jets in the quark-gluon plasma - has been extensively studied through weakly coupled scattering amplitudes embedded in parton-shower frameworks. These models, often combined with bulk…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Ismail Soudi , Adam Takacs

This work presents the first theoretical investigation of the medium modification of jet broadening as an event-shape observable in multijet final states due to jet quenching in high-energy nuclear collisions. The partonic spectrum of $pp$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-15 Jin-Wen Kang , Lei Wang , Wei Dai , Sa Wang , Ben-Wei Zhang

Parton propagation in dense nuclear matter results in elastic, inelastic and coherent multiple soft scattering with the in-medium color charges. Such scattering leads to calculable modifications of the hadron production cross section that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ivan Vitev

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

Recent developments in the many-body perturbative QCD theory of inelastic parton interactions in dense nuclear matter and the phenomenology of strongly-interacting hard probes in heavy ion collisions are reviewed. We highlight the progress…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan Vitev

We study the collective flow of the {QGP}-fluid which transports the energy and momentum deposited from jets. Simulations of the propagation of jets together with expansion of the {QGP}-fluid are performed by solving relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-16 Yasuki Tachibana , Tetsufumi Hirano

A hot, dense medium called a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. Hard parton scatterings generate high momentum partons that traverse the medium, which then fragment into sprays of particle called…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-06-19 Megan Connors , Christine Nattrass , Rosi Reed , Sevil Salur

Since the start of the heavy-ion collision programs at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider, the study of jet modifications resulting from their interactions with the produced QCD matter has provided a unique…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-10 Carlota Andres

I present an overview of some of the recent results on jets and jet-like correlation measurements from the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Jets are produced in the initial hard scatterings of an…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-10-11 Helen Caines

We study the jet quenching parameter $\hat q$ in a non-equilibrium plasma using the QCD effective kinetic theory. We discuss subleading terms at large jet momentum p, show that our expression for $\hat q$ reproduces thermal results at small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Kirill Boguslavski , Aleksi Kurkela , Tuomas Lappi , Florian Lindenbauer , Jarkko Peuron

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

In heavy-ion collisions, nuclear matter is subjected to extreme conditions in a highly dynamical, rapidly evolving environment. This poses a tremendous challenge for calculating jet quenching observables. Current approaches rely on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Souvik Priyam Adhya , Konrad Tywoniuk

In this work, we study the jet momentum broadening in an inhomogeneous dense QCD medium. The transverse profile of this nuclear matter is described within a gradient expansion, and we focus on the leading gradient contributions. The leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 João Barata , Andrey V. Sadofyev , Carlos A. Salgado

High energy quarks and gluons play essential roles in the tomographic study of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and of the quark-gluon plasma. They interact with the traversed dense matter through elastic and inelastic collisions, and lose…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-25 Guang-You Qin

The jet quenching phenomenon in heavy ion collisions provides a strong evidence of the modification of parton shower in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Jet substructure observables can probe various aspects of the jet formation mechanism.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-22 Yang-Ting Chien

QCD predictions for moments of multiplicity distributions are compared with experimental data on e+e- collisions and their two-NBD fits. Moments of the multiplicity distribution in a two-NBD model for 1.8 TeV pp collisions are considered.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 I. M. Dremin

The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) can be explored in relativistic heavy ion collisions by the jet quenching signature, i.e. by the energy loss of a high energy quark or gluon traversing the plasma. We introduce a novel QCD evolution formalism in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 S. Domdey , G. Ingelman , H. J. Pirner , J. Rathsman , J. Stachel , K. Zapp