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Distinguishing quark-initiated jets from gluon-initiated jets has the potential to significantly improve the reach of many beyond-the-standard model searches at the Large Hadron Collider and to provide additional tests of QCD. To explore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason Gallicchio , Matthew D. Schwartz

Non-abelian energy loss in quark gluon plasma is shown to lead to novel hadron ratio suppression patterns in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. We apply recent (GLV) estimates for the gluon radiative energy loss, which increases linearly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Levai , G. Papp , G. Fai , M. Gyulassy

The discovery of the jet quenching in central Au + Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory has provided clear evidence for the formation of strongly interacting dense matter. It has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. B. Gay Ducati , V. P. Goncalves , L. F. Mackedanz

We calculate and compare bremsstrahlung and collisional energy loss of hard partons traversing a quark-gluon plasma. Our treatment of both processes is complete at leading order in the coupling and accounts for the probabilistic nature of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Guang-You Qin , Jorg Ruppert , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Guy D. Moore , Munshi G. Mustafa

We present the complete physical picture for the evolution of a high-energy jet propagating through a weakly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by analytical and numerical investigation of thermalization of the soft components of the jet. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Edmond Iancu , Bin Wu

One of the key signatures of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is the energy loss of high momentum particles as they traverse the strongly interacting medium. The energy loss of these particles is governed by the jet transport coefficient…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-08 Emma McLaughlin , Jacob Rose , Paolo Parotto , Claudia Ratti , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

Cold nuclear matter effects in reactions with nuclei at a future electron-ion collider (EIC) lead to a modification of semi-inclusive hadron production, jet cross sections, and jet substructure when compared to the vacuum. At leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-21 Matthew D. Sievert , Ivan Vitev

The effect of initial state fluctuations on jet energy loss in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied in a 2+1 dimension ideal hydrodynamic model. Within the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD description of hard scatterings, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-08 Hanzhong Zhang , Taesoo Song , Che Ming Ko

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

We present a study of the relative energy loss of quark and gluon jets that traverse a weakly-coupled medium. The study is carried out with the jet quenching Monte-Carlo event generator JEWEL which has been validated for a large set of jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-18 Liliana Apolinário , João Barata , José Guilherme Milhano

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

The study of the differences of the fragmentation of quarks and gluons to jets of hadrons gives insight into the fundamental structure of QCD. Results from different approaches to properties of quarks and gluons are shown. The colour factor…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Siebel

The modifications imprinted on jets due to their interaction with Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) are assessed by comparing samples of jets produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions and proton-proton collisions. The standard procedure ignores the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-07 Liliana Apolinário , Lénea Luís , José Guilherme Milhano , João M. Silva

We study multiple scatterings of jets on constituents of quark gluon plasma and introduce energy--energy correlations to quantify their effects. The effects from a longitudinally expanding plasma on medium as well as high energy jets are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Jicai Pan , Charles Gale

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

We study the evolution of the plasma instabilities induced by two jets of particles propagating in opposite directions and crossing a thermally equilibrated non-Abelian plasma. In order to simplify the analysis we assume that the two jets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Massimo Mannarelli , Cristina Manuel , Sergi Gonzalez-Solis , Michael Strickland

Deep learning techniques have shown the capability to identify the degree of energy loss of high-energy jets traversing hot QCD medium on a jet-by-jet basis. The average amount of quenching of quark and gluon jets in hot QCD medium actually…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-04 Yi-Lun Du , Daniel Pablos , Konrad Tywoniuk

Reconstructed jets initiated from heavy quarks provide a powerful tool to probe the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and to explore the mass hierarchy of jet quenching. In this article, we review the recent theoretical progresses…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-31 Sa Wang , Wei Dai , Enke Wang , Xin-Nian Wang , Ben-Wei Zhang

We introduce photon-like refraction for gluon jet in quark gluon plasma created in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. A quark jet goes straightly while a gluon jet is assumed to bend in the non-homogeneous medium. Combining refraction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-05-28 Hanzhong Zhang , Enke Wang

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