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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

After a discussion on the meaning of "jets" in the context of nucleus-nucleus collisions, the distortions of the profile of a parton shower induced by the presence of a medium is investigated in a QCD-inspired model that implements the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Nicolas Borghini

In this study we evaluate the dynamical collisional energy loss of heavy quarks, their interaction rate as well as the different transport coefficients (drag and diffusion coefficients, $\hat{q}$, etc). We calculate these different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-15 Hamza Berrehrah , Pol-Bernard Gossiaux , Jörg Aichelin , Wolfgang Cassing , Elena Bratkovskaya

Studies of fully-reconstructed jets in heavy-ion collisions aim at extracting thermodynamical and transport properties of hot and dense QCD matter. Recently, a plethora of new jet substructure observables have been theoretically and…

We introduce a new 'quantile' analysis strategy to study the modification of jets as they traverse through a droplet of quark-gluon plasma. To date, most jet modification studies have been based on comparing the jet properties measured in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-18 Jasmine Brewer , José Guilherme Milhano , Jesse Thaler

Medium modification of $\gamma$-tagged jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions is investigated within a linearized Boltzmann transport model which includes both elastic parton scattering and induced gluon emission. In Pb+Pb collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Xin-Nian Wang , Yan Zhu

A Linear Boltzmann Transport model within perturbative QCD is developed for the study of parton propagation inside the quark-gluon plasma. Both leading partons and thermal recoil partons are tracked so that one can also study jet-induced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-14 Yayun He , Tan Luo , Xin-Nian Wang , Yan Zhu

n these proceedings I discuss several recent developments in the physics of heavy flavor jets in heavy ion collisions. i) The dijet mass modification in nucleus-nucleus reactions has been proposed as a new observable with enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-25 Ivan Vitev

This paper investigates the influence of heavy-quark momentum on their interaction rate and the resulting drag coefficient in a quark-gluon plasma. To go beyond simplified treatments, we introduce a phenomenological extension of the drag…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Marjan Rahimi Nezhad , Fatemeh Taghavi-Shahri , Kurosh Javidan

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 discovery of collectivity in proton-proton collisions, is one of the most puzzling outcomes from the two first runs at LHC, as it points to the possibility of creation of a Quark-Gluon Plasma, earlier believed to only be created in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-26 Christian Bierlich

Heavy quarks offer an invaluable hard probe of the droplets of quark gluon plasma (QGP) formed in heavy ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC. Given their large mass, they are predominantly produced in hard scattering processes at the earliest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-15 Andrea Beraudo , Jean F. Du Plessis , Daniel Pablos , Krishna Rajagopal

We investigate the energy loss and equilibration of highly energetic particles/jets inside a QCD medium. Based on an effective kinetic description of QCD, including $2\leftrightarrow 2$ elastic processes, radiative $1\leftrightarrow 2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-19 Soeren Schlichting , Ismail Soudi

Interactions of hard partons in the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) created with relativistic heavy ion collisions lead to characteristic modifications of the internal structure of reconstructed jets. A large part of the observed jet sub-structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-01 José Guilherme Milhano , Korinna Zapp

Jet quenching has successfully served as a hard probe to study the properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). As a multi-particle system, jets take time to develop from a highly virtual parton to a group of partons close to mass shells. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-16 Mengxue Zhang , Yang He , Shanshan Cao , Li Yi

Jet physics in relativistic heavy ion collisions, which combines perturbative QCD jet production with quark and gluon energy loss and in-medium parton shower modification, has emerged as a powerful tool to probe the properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-24 Ben-Wei Zhang , Yuncun He , R. B. Neufeld , Ivan Vitev , Enke Wang

The first order correction to the parton fragmentation functions in a thermal medium is derived in the leading logarithmic approximation in the framework of thermal field theory. The medium-modified evolution equations of the parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jonathan A. Osborne , Enke Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

In high energy nuclear collisions, heavy flavor tagged jets are useful hard probes to study the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this talk, we present the first theoretical prediction of the $D^0$ meson radial distributions in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-23 Sa Wang , Wei Dai , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

Jets are extended multipartonic systems and serve as a powerful tool for investigating the dynamics of emergent phenomena driven by many body QCD interactions. In heavy ion collisions, starting from their production during the perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-26 Balbeer Singh

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