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Jet quenching is considered to be one of the signatures of the formation of quark gluon plasma. In order to investigate the jet quenching, it is necessary to detect jets produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions, determine their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. C. Phatak , P. K. Sahu

The quenching of jets (particles with $p_T>>T, \Lambda_{QCD}$) in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions has been one of the main prediction and discovery at RHIC. We have studied, by a simple jet quenching modeling, the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-14 F. Scardina , M. Di Toro , V. Greco

Recent data on the azimuthal and transverse momentum dependence of high-pT>10 GeV pion nuclear modification factors in nuclear collisions at RHIC/BNL and LHC/CERN are analyzed in terms of a wide class of jet-energy loss models and a variety…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Barbara Betz , Miklos Gyulassy

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

Relativistic heavy-ion experiments have observed similar quenching effects for (prompt) $D$ mesons compared to charged hadrons for transverse momenta larger than 6-8~GeV, which remains a mystery since heavy quarks typically lose less…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Wen-Jing Xing , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Hongxi Xing

Jet tomography is the analysis of the attenuation pattern of high transverse momentum hadrons to determine certain line integral transforms of the density profile of the QCD matter produced in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 M. Gyulassy , P. Levai , I. Vitev

We study the tomographic applications of a new phenomenon we dub "jet drift" -- the deflection of high-energy particles and jets toward the direction of a flowing medium -- to the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions. While…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 Logan Antiporda , Joseph Bahder , Hasan Rahman , Matthew D. Sievert

The collimation of average multiplicity inside quark and gluon jets is investigated in perturbative QCD in the modified leading logarithmic approximation (MLLA). The role of higher order corrections accounting for energy conservation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-26 Francois Arleo , Redamy Perez Ramos

We investigate the medium modification of a partonic jet shower traversing in a hot quark-gluon plasma. We derive and solve a differential equation that governs the evolution of the radiated gluon spectrum as the jet propagates through the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-27 Guang-You Qin , Berndt Müller

The intrinsic quantum nature of jets and the Quark-Gluon Plasma makes the study of jet quenching a promising candidate to benefit from quantum computing power. Standing as a precursor of the full study of this phenomenon, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 Nuno Filipe Castro , José Guilherme Milhano , Maria Gabriela Jordão Oliveira

The higher-twist formalism is used at $O(\alpha^2_s)$ to compute all possible medium-induced single-scattering emission kernels for an incoming highly energetic and virtual quark traversing the nuclear environment. The effects of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Amit Kumar , Gojko Vujanovic

High energetic particles traversing a dense medium lose a sizable part of their energy in form of gluon radiation. As a result, the rate of high-$p_t$ particles is expected to be suppressed in heavy ion collisions with respect to the proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. Salgado

The aim of this study is to set a baseline for the jet quenching measurements of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in the large system size Nucleus-Nucleus (A-A) at top central collisions, via studying simulated small system size,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-29 M. T. AlFiky , O. T. ElSherif , A. M. Hamed

Nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ for large $p_T$ single hadron is studied in a next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) parton model with medium-modified fragmentation functions (mFFs) due to jet quenching in high-energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Zhi-Quan Liu , Hanzhong Zhang , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

Recent data on the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ of jet fragments in 2.76 ATeV Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) indicate that the jet-medium coupling in a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is reduced at LHC energies and not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Barbara Betz , Miklos Gyulassy

Jet studies provide an experimental method to explore the features of energy loss in the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma. Recent jet results from 2.76 TeV PbPb and pp collisions measured with the CMS detector are presented. Jets in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-09-02 Marguerite B. Tonjes

We study the evolution of the quark-gluon composition of the plasma created in ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (uRHIC's) employing a partonic transport theory that includes both elastic and inelastic collisions plus a mean fields…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-09 F. Scardina , M. Colonna , S. Plumari , V. Greco

Energy-loss studies of hard particle probes produced in heavy ion collisions have often been used to get information on the interactions within the medium of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). However, with the study of in-medium energy-loss of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Martin Rohrmoser , Pol-Bernard Gossiaux , Thierry Gousset , Jörg Aichelin

We study jet quenching in $pp$ and $pA$ collisions in the scenario with formation of a mini quark-gluon plasma. We find a significant suppression effect. For light hadrons at $p_{T}\sim 10$ GeV we obtained the reduction of the spectra by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-02 B. G. Zakharov

The search for the smallest quark-gluon plasma (QGP) droplets in nature has motivated recent small collisions system programs at RHIC and LHC. Unambiguous identification of jet quenching due to final-state interactions is key to confirming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-21 Weiyao Ke , Ivan Vitev