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Review of Jet Measurements in Heavy Ion Collisions

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

Identified charged hadron production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 54.4 GeV with the STAR detector

We present results on the production of $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $p$, and $\bar{p}$ in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 54.4~GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC, at midrapidity ($|y| <$ 0.1). Invariant yields of these particles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-05-22 STAR Collaboration , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , G. Agakishiev , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , A. Aitbayev , I. Alekseev , E. Alpatov , A. K. Alshammri , A. Aparin , S. Aslam , J. Atchison , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , X. Bao , P. Barik , K. Barish , S. Behera , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , S. Bhatta , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , C. Broodo , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , J. Ceska , I. Chakaberia , Y. S. Chang , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. H. Chen , L. Chen , Q. Chen , W. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , W. Christie , X. Chu , S. Corey , H. J. Crawford , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , D. De Souza Lemos , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , A. Deshpande , A. Dhamija , A. Dimri , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , Y. S. El-Feky , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , B. Fan , Y. Fang , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , H. Feng , Y. Feng , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , F. A. Flor , B. Fu , C. Fu , T. Fu , T. Gao , Y. Gao , G. Garcia , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , A. Giri , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gu , J. Gu , A. Gupta , A. Hamed , R. J. Hamilton , J. Han , X. Han , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison-Smith , L. B. Havener , X. H. He , Y. He , C. Hu , Q. Hu , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , M. Isshiki , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jalotra , C. Jena , Y. Ji , J. Jia , X. Jiang , C. Jin , Y. Jin , N. Jindal , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , J. Kang , K. Kang , A. R. Kanuganti , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , M. Kesler , A. Khanal , A. Khanal , J. Kim , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , L. Kochenda , Y. Kong , A. A. Korobitsin , B. Korodi , A. Yu. Kraeva , P. Kravtsov , L. Kumar , M. C. Labonte , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , C. Larson , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , C. Li , D. Li , H-S. Li , H. Li , H. Li , H. Li , W. Li , X. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Z. Li , Z. Li , X. Liang , T. Lin , Y. Lin , C. Liu , G. Liu , H. Liu , L. Liu , L. Liu , Z. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , O. Lomicky , E. M. Loyd , T. Lu , J. Luo , X. F. Luo , V. B. Luong , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Manikandhan , O. Matonoha , K. Menduli , K. Mi , N. G. Minaev , B. Mohanty , B. Mondal , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , D. A. Morozov , M. I. Nagy , C. J. Naim , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , H. Nasrulloh , E. Nedorezov , J. M. Nelson , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , M. Pal , S. Pal , A. Pandav , A. Panday , A. K. Pandey , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pani , P. Parfenov , A. Paul , S. Paul , C. Perkins , S. Ping , I. D. Ponce Pinto , M. Posik , E. Pottebaum , A. Povarov , S. Prodhan , T. L. Protzman , N. K. Pruthi , J. Putschke , Y. Qi , Z. Qin , H. Qiu , C. Racz , S. K. Radhakrishnan , A. Rana , R. L. Ray , C. W. Robertson , O. V. Rogachevsky , M. A. Rosales Aguilar , D. Roy , L. Ruan , A. K. Sahoo , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , S. S. Sambyal , E. Samigullin , D. T. Samuel , J. K. Sandhu , S. Sato , B. C. Schaefer , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , T. Shao , M. Sharma , N. Sharma , R. Sharma , S. R. Sharma , A. I. Sheikh , D. Shen , D. Y. Shen , K. Shen , S. Shi , Y. Shi , Shilpa , E. Shulga , F. Si , J. Singh , S. Singha , P. Sinha , M. J. Skoby , Y. Söhngen , Y. Song , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Strikhanov , Y. Su , X. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , Z. W. Sweger , A. C. Tamis , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. Timofeev , D. Tlusty , M. V. Tokarev , D. Torres-Valladares , S. Trentalange , O. D. Tsai , C. Y. Tsang , Z. Tu , J. E. Tyler , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , G. Van Buren , A. N. Vasiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , F. Wang , G. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. Wang , K. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , G. Wilks , S. W. Wissink , C. P. Wong , J. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , B. Xi , Y. Xiao , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , X. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , G. Yan , Z. Yan , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , Y. Yu , W. Yuan , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , K. Zhang , L. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , C. Zhu , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

The onset of classical QCD dynamics in relativistic heavy ion collisions

The experimental results on hadron production obtained recently at RHIC offer a new prospective on the energy dependence of the nuclear collision dynamics. In particular, it is possible that parton saturation -- the phenomenon likely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Kharzeev , E. Levin , M. Nardi

High-p_T pion and kaon production in relativistic nuclear collisions

High-p_T pion and kaon production is studied in relativistic proton-proton, proton-nucleus, and nucleus-nucleus collisions in a wide energy range. Cross sections are calculated based on perturbative QCD, augmented by a phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Zhang , G. Fai , G. Papp , G. G. Barnafoldi , P. Levai

Gluon Shadowing and Hadron Production at RHIC

Hadron multiplicity in the central rapidity region of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is investigated within a two-component mini-jet model which consists of soft and semi-hard particle production. The hard contribution from mini-jets is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-yuan Li , Xin-Nian Wang

Hadronic dissipative effects on transverse dynamics at RHIC

We simulate the dynamics of Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with a hybrid model that treats the quark-gluon plasma macroscopically as an ideal fluid, but models the hadron resonance gas microscopically using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Hirano , U. W. Heinz , D. Kharzeev , R. Lacey , Y. Nara

Hadron formation in high energy photonuclear reactions

We present a new method to account for coherence length effects in a semi-classical transport model. This allows us to describe photo- and electroproduction at large nuclei (A>12) and high energies using a realistic coupled channel…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Falter , U. Mosel

Quenching of High pT Hadron Spectra by Hadronic Interactions in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC

Typically the materialization of high energetic transverse partons to hadronic jets is assumed to occur outside the reaction zone in a relativistic heavy ion collision. In contrast, a quantum mechanical estimate yields a time on the order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Gallmeister , C. Greiner , Z. Xu

Nuclear matter effects on $J/\psi$ production in asymmetric Cu+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV

We report on $J/\psi$ production from asymmetric Cu+Au heavy-ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$=200 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at both forward (Cu-going direction) and backward (Au-going direction) rapidities. The nuclear…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-08-31 C. Aidala , N. N. Ajitanand , Y. Akiba , R. Akimoto , J. Alexander , K. Aoki , N. Apadula , H. Asano , E. T. Atomssa , T. C. Awes , B. Azmoun , V. Babintsev , M. Bai , X. Bai , B. Bannier , K. N. Barish , S. Bathe , V. Baublis , C. Baumann , S. Baumgart , A. Bazilevsky , M. Beaumier , R. Belmont , A. Berdnikov , Y. Berdnikov , X. Bing , D. Black , D. S. Blau , J. Bok , K. Boyle , M. L. Brooks , J. Bryslawskyj , H. Buesching , V. Bumazhnov , S. Butsyk , S. Campbell , C. -H. Chen , C. Y. Chi , M. Chiu , I. J. Choi , J. B. Choi , S. Choi , P. Christiansen , T. Chujo , V. Cianciolo , B. A. Cole , N. Cronin , N. Crossette , M. Csanád , T. Csörgő , A. Datta , M. S. Daugherity , G. David , K. Dehmelt , A. Denisov , A. Deshpande , E. J. Desmond , L. Ding , J. H. Do , O. Drapier , A. Drees , K. A. Drees , J. M. Durham , A. Durum , L. D'Orazio , T. Engelmore , A. Enokizono , S. Esumi , K. O. Eyser , B. Fadem , D. E. Fields , M. Finger , M. Finger, , F. Fleuret , S. L. Fokin , J. E. Frantz , A. Franz , A. D. Frawley , Y. Fukao , K. Gainey , C. Gal , P. Garg , A. Garishvili , I. Garishvili , F. Giordano , A. Glenn , X. Gong , M. Gonin , Y. Goto , R. Granier de Cassagnac , N. Grau , S. V. Greene , M. Grosse Perdekamp , Y. Gu , T. Gunji , H. Guragain , J. S. Haggerty , K. I. Hahn , H. Hamagaki , J. Hanks , K. Hashimoto , R. Hayano , X. He , T. K. Hemmick , T. Hester , J. C. Hill , R. S. Hollis , K. Homma , B. Hong , T. Hoshino , J. Huang , S. Huang , T. Ichihara , Y. Ikeda , K. Imai , Y. Imazu , M. Inaba , A. Iordanova , D. Isenhower , A. Isinhue , D. Ivanishchev , B. V. Jacak , S. J. Jeon , M. Jezghani , J. Jia , X. Jiang , B. M. Johnson , K. S. Joo , D. Jouan , D. S. Jumper , J. Kamin , S. Kanda , B. H. Kang , J. H. Kang , J. S. Kang , J. Kapustinsky , D. Kawall , A. V. Kazantsev , J. A. Key , V. Khachatryan , P. K. Khandai , A. Khanzadeev , K. M. Kijima , C. Kim , D. J. Kim , E. -J. Kim , Y. -J. Kim , Y. K. Kim , E. Kistenev , J. Klatsky , D. Kleinjan , P. Kline , T. Koblesky , M. Kofarago , B. Komkov , J. Koster , D. Kotchetkov , D. Kotov , F. Krizek , K. Kurita , M. Kurosawa , Y. Kwon , R. Lacey , Y. S. Lai , J. G. Lajoie , A. Lebedev , D. M. Lee , G. H. Lee , J. Lee , K. B. Lee , K. S. Lee , S. H. Lee , M. J. Leitch , M. Leitgab , B. Lewis , X. Li , S. H. Lim , M. X. Liu , D. Lynch , C. F. Maguire , Y. I. Makdisi , M. Makek , A. Manion , V. I. Manko , E. Mannel , T. Maruyama , M. McCumber , P. L. McGaughey , D. McGlinchey , C. McKinney , A. Meles , M. Mendoza , B. Meredith , Y. Miake , T. Mibe , A. C. Mignerey , A. Milov , D. K. Mishra , J. T. Mitchell , S. Miyasaka , S. Mizuno , A. K. Mohanty , D. P. Morrison , M. Moskowitz , T. V. Moukhanova , T. Murakami , J. Murata , T. Nagae , S. Nagamiya , J. L. Nagle , M. I. Nagy , I. Nakagawa , Y. Nakamiya , K. R. Nakamura , T. Nakamura , K. Nakano , C. Nattrass , P. K. Netrakanti , M. Nihashi , T. Niida , R. Nouicer , T. Novak , N. Novitzky , A. S. Nyanin , E. O'Brien , C. A. Ogilvie , H. Oide , K. Okada , A. Oskarsson , K. Ozawa , R. Pak , V. Pantuev , V. Papavassiliou , I. H. Park , S. Park , S. K. Park , S. F. Pate , L. Patel , J. -C. Peng , D. Perepelitsa , G. D. N. Perera , D. Yu. Peressounko , J. Perry , R. Petti , C. Pinkenburg , R. P. Pisani , M. L. Purschke , H. Qu , J. Rak , I. Ravinovich , K. F. Read , D. Reynolds , V. Riabov , Y. Riabov , E. Richardson , N. Riveli , D. Roach , S. D. Rolnick , M. Rosati , M. S. Ryu , B. Sahlmueller , N. Saito , T. Sakaguchi , H. Sako , V. Samsonov , M. Sarsour , S. Sato , S. Sawada , K. Sedgwick , J. Seele , R. Seidl , Y. Sekiguchi , A. Sen , R. Seto , P. Sett , D. Sharma , A. Shaver , I. Shein , T. -A. Shibata , K. Shigaki , M. Shimomura , K. Shoji , P. Shukla , A. Sickles , C. L. Silva , D. Silvermyr , B. K. Singh , C. P. Singh , V. Singh , M. Skolnik , M. Slunečka , S. Solano , R. A. Soltz , W. E. Sondheim , S. P. Sorensen , M. Soumya , I. V. Sourikova , P. W. Stankus , P. Steinberg , E. Stenlund , M. Stepanov , A. Ster , S. P. Stoll , M. R. Stone , T. Sugitate , A. Sukhanov , J. Sun , A. Takahara , A. Taketani , K. Tanida , M. J. Tannenbaum , S. Tarafdar , A. Taranenko , E. Tennant , A. Timilsina , T. Todoroki , M. Tomášek , H. Torii , R. S. Towell , I. Tserruya , H. W. van Hecke , M. Vargyas , E. Vazquez-Zambrano , A. Veicht , J. Velkovska , R. Vértesi , M. Virius , V. Vrba , E. Vznuzdaev , X. R. Wang , D. Watanabe , K. Watanabe , Y. Watanabe , Y. S. Watanabe , F. Wei , S. Whitaker , S. Wolin , C. L. Woody , M. Wysocki , Y. L. Yamaguchi , A. Yanovich , S. Yokkaichi , I. Yoon , Z. You , I. Younus , I. E. Yushmanov , W. A. Zajc , A. Zelenski , S. Zhou

Quarkonia production at forward rapidity in Pb+Pb collisions at $\bf \sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV with the ALICE detector

The study of formation of heavy quarkonia in relativistic heavy ion collisions provides important insight into the properties of the produced high density QCD medium. Lattice QCD studies show sequential suppression of quarkonia states with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-01-16 Debasish Das

Evaluating the ratio of the exclusive vector meson photoproduction to inclusive hadron/jet production cross section in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions

Using the QCD color dipole picture to study exclusive vector meson and inclusive jet/open meson photoproduction, we calculate the ratio of elastic meson production to inclusive hadron production cross sections for ultraperipheral heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Joao Vitor C. Lovato , Edgar Huayra , Magno V. T. Machado

Study of Initial and Final State Effects in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions Using Hadronic Probes

It has been theorized that if heavy nuclei (e.g. Au, Pb) are collided at sufficiently high energies, we might be to recreate the conditions that existed in the universe a few microseconds after the Big Bang. The kinetic energy of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-07-18 Anuj K. Purwar

Parton Rescatterings in Large-x Nuclear Suppression at RHIC

We demonstrate that strong suppression of the relative production rate (d+Au)/(p+p) of inclusive high-pT hadrons at forward rapidities observed at RHIC is due to parton multiple rescatterings in nuclear matter. The light-cone dipole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-25 J. Nemchik , M. Sumbera

Forward Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider

At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) it will become possible for the first time to investigate experimentally the forward region in hadron-hadron collisions via high-$p_T$ processes. In the LHC forward kinematics QCD logarithmic corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-05 M. Deak , F. Hautmann , H. Jung , K. Kutak

Photon-Photon and Photon-Hadron Interactions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Colliders

In central collisions at relativistic heavy ion colliders like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC/Brookhaven and the Large Hadron Collider LHC (in its heavy ion mode) at CERN/Geneva, one aims at detecting a new form of hadronic matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerhard Baur , Kai Hencken , Dirk Trautmann

Back-to-Back Correlations of Di-hadrons in dAu Collisions at RHIC

We perform a complete theoretical analysis of the azimuthal angular correlation of two-hadron productions in the forward $dAu$ collisions at RHIC in the saturation formalism, and obtain a very good agreement with the experimental data. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Anna Stasto , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

Universal Behavior of Charged Particle Production in Heavy Ion Collisions

The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has measured the multiplicity of primary charged particles as a function of centrality and pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 19.6, 130 and 200 GeV. Two kinds of universal behavior are observed…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-01-11 Peter Steinberg , PHOBOS Collaboration

Particle Ratios at High p_T at LHC Energies

Hadron production has been calculated in a pQCD improved parton model for pp, dA and heavy ion collisions. We applied KKP and AKK fragmentation functions. Our jet fragmentation study shows, that hadron ratios at high p_T depend on quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-07-02 G. G. Barnafoldi , P. Levai , B. A. Cole , G. Fai , G. Papp

Hadron production from quark coalescence and jet fragmentation in intermediate energy collisions at RHIC

Transverse momentum spectra of pions, protons and antiprotons in Au+Au collisions at intermediate RHIC energy of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=62$ GeV are studied in a model that includes both quark coalescence from the dense partonic matter and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Greco , C. M. Ko , I. Vitev

Prompt photon production in high-energy $pA$ collisions at forward rapidity

Prompt photon production in hadronic collisions at the RHIC and the LHC energies is investigated within the QCD color dipole approach. Predictions for the nuclear modification factor in $pA$ collisions are evaluated based on parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 G. Sampaio dos Santos , G. Gil da Silveira , M. V. T. Machado