A model of jet quenching in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and high-pt hadron spectra at RHIC

A.M. Snigirev; I.P. Lokhtin

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A model of jet quenching in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and high-pt hadron spectra at RHIC

I.P. Lokhtin, A.M. Snigirev

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 19 Jun 2005 · 41 references

Pith's verdict: The released PYQUEN/HYDJET code is the real contribution; the RAA agreement is a fit restated, and the two extracted initial-condition parameters are not separately identifiable.

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CitationA.M. Snigirev, I.P. Lokhtin. "A model of jet quenching in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and high-pt hadron spectra at RHIC." arXiv:hep-ph/0506189 (2005). https://pith.science/paper/Y7XWATBY

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The thing worth your time here is the code, not the plots. Lokhtin and Snigirev have built PYQUEN, a scattering-by-scattering implementation of medium-induced parton energy loss bolted onto PYTHIA, and HYDJET, which superposes that hard sector on a simple thermal-plus-flow soft event. Both are on the web (refs [25], [32]). For 2005 that is good practice, and it is why the paper had legs. The physics ingredients are standard and correctly assembled: BDMS radiative loss with the LPM minimum, Bjorken collisional loss in the high-momentum-transfer approximation, Bjorken longitudinal expansion, dead-cone suppression for heavy quarks. Nothing invented, nothing obviously wrong. The event-by-event treatment of path length and the string rearrangement after adding in-medium gluons is the actual novelty, and it is a sensible one. Now the soft part. Section 5 fits Tf, YmaxT and pTmin to PHENIX pion spectra and then shows those spectra in Figs. 1-2 as reproduced. That is a fit displayed as a result, and the paper does not flag it. More consequentially, it extracts T0 = 500 MeV and tau0 = 0.4 fm/c from RAA and then lists the pT dependence of RAA among the things the model reproduces. The stress-test note is right, and it is the sharper version of the complaint: under Eq. (7), q-hat scales as T^3 and the medium lifetime goes as (T0/Tc)^3, so the accumulated rescattering depends to leading order on the product T0^3 tau0. The logarithm gives only a weak lever on T0 alone. So (500 MeV, 0.4 fm/c) is one point on a near-degenerate line, not two independently measured numbers. The qualitative RAA agreement survives; the claim to have pinned both initial conditions does not. What saves the paper evidentially is Fig. 4. The away-side correlation in central Au+Au is not used to fix any constant, and the model kills the back-to-back peak for the right reason: surface emission, one jet escaping clean. That is a real, independent check. The authors are honest about what they left out: no transverse expansion, no viscosity, no double scattering, no thermal gluon absorption, v2 underpredicted below 2 GeV/c, baryon-to-meson puzzle out of scope. Do not hold those against them; they say so. Who should read it: anyone who needs a fast quenching generator for RHIC/LHC feasibility studies, and anyone comparing energy-loss models. It deserves referees; the code release and the Fig. 4 check justify the time. Ask them to call the RAA agreement a fit and to state the T0-tau0 degeneracy.

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The paper's lasting value is as a methods reference: PYQUEN/HYDJET is a genuinely useful, fast, publicly available tool that has been widely used for RHIC and LHC detector studies, and the combination of BDMS radiative loss with Bjorken collisional loss, realistic nuclear geometry, and Lund fragmentation of in-medium gluons was a reasonable state of the art for a fast generator at the time. The authors are also commendably explicit about what the model does not include (transverse expansion and viscosity, double scattering, thermal gluon absorption, cold nuclear matter rescattering, peripheral and very forward regions, low-pT observables such as v2 and particle ratios). The paper should be read as a tuned simulation tool, not as a first-principles determination of QGP initial conditions, and the revision should sharpen that distinction.

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[Section 5, Figures 2 and 3] The paper presents as reproductions two comparisons whose parameters were fitted to the same data. The soft parameters Tf, YmaxT and pTmin are 'obtained by fitting PHENIX data on pT-spectra of neutral pions', and Figures 1 and 2 then show those same spectra as reproduced; likewise T0 and tau0 are extracted from RAA and Figure 3 then presents RAA as reproduced. The sentence 'We will see below, that setting model parameters as it was described above, makes it possible to reproduce ... the pT-dependence of RAA' should be reworded to distinguish clearly between fitted and genuinely predicted observables. The eta spectra, the centrality dependence, and C(dphi) are the honest tests; the fitted spectra are not.
[Section 5, Eq. (7)] The extraction of T0 = 500 MeV and tau0 = 0.4 fm/c as separate initial conditions is not demonstrated to be identifiable. Under the Bjorken scaling of Eq. (7), q-hat scales as T^3 and the accumulated rescattering that drives radiative loss scales approximately as T0^3 tau0 times 3 ln(T0/Tc), so to leading order only the product T0^3 tau0 is constrained. The logarithm and the T-dependence of mu_D^2 and omega_min provide some lever arm, so the degeneracy need not be exact, but the paper gives no scan, no chi-squared contour, and no statement of how strongly RAA discriminates T0 from tau0. Either a sensitivity study (vary T0 at fixed T0^3 tau0 and show that RAA changes) or an explicit acknowledgment of the degeneracy is needed before the pair can be quoted as extracted.
[Section 5] The claim that the nuclear modification of the hardest domain of the pT spectrum is 'determined in our case only by the intensity of the medium-induced parton rescattering' is asserted rather than shown, and it is precisely this claim that licenses the separate extraction of T0 and tau0 from the soft parameters. The paper should demonstrate the insensitivity, for example by varying Tf, YmaxT and pTmin within their fit uncertainties and showing that RAA above about 5 GeV/c is unchanged, or it should soften the claim.
[Section 2, Eqs. (4) and (13)] The radiative energy loss rate of Eq. (4) and the radiated-gluon spectrum of Eq. (13) are not mutually consistent as written. Eq. (4) is a dE/dl with a prefactor 2 alpha_s C_R/(pi L), while Eq. (13) is a dI/domega with a prefactor 2 alpha_s lambda C_R/(pi L omega); if the intended relation is dE/dl = (1/L) integral domega omega dI/domega, the two differ by a factor lambda/L. Since the absolute magnitude of the energy loss is load-bearing for the RAA comparison, the relation between the two expressions should be stated explicitly and the factors checked.
[Section 2, Eq. (1) and Section 3, Eqs. (10) and (12)] The energy-loss bookkeeping is inconsistent between the schematic and the simulation-level equations. Eq. (1) writes dP/dl = lambda^{-1} exp(-l/lambda) with a constant lambda, whereas the medium is expanding and Eq. (10) correctly uses the path-dependent lambda(tau); Eq. (1) should either be written in the same general form or explicitly labelled schematic. In addition, Eq. (1) is implicit in E, since the dE/dl on the right depends on the energy already lost, and this should be stated. Similarly, the per-scattering collisional loss Delta E_col,i = t_i/(2 m_0) of Eq. (12) does not obviously follow from the dE/dl_col of Eq. (2), which carries a factor 1/4 and an integral over t weighted by dsigma/dt; the derivation connecting the two should be given.
[Section 3, Eq. (14)] The transverse momentum kick formula appears dimensionally inconsistent: the term E t_i/(2 m_{0i} p) is dimensionless while it is subtracted from the momentum p inside the second squared bracket. Since the kick feeds the angular distribution of the radiated gluons and hence the away-side correlation function of Figure 4, the expression should be corrected or its derivation explained.

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[Section 2, Eq. (8)] The text states 'theta_0 ~ 50', which presumably should read 'theta_0 ~ 5 degrees'. The normalization and integration range of the angular distribution should also be stated, since the sin(theta) factor and the Gaussian are not normalized over 0 to pi as written.
[Figure 4 caption] The caption cites reference [35] for the STAR data, but [35] is the PHENIX reference; the STAR reference is [36].
[Reference [27]] The author list contains the typo 'a A.M. Snigirev'.
[Section 5] Nf = 2 is listed among the quantities 'extracted from the data', but Nf is a fixed input of the model rather than an extracted initial condition. The sentence should be rephrased.
[Section 2] The dismissal of cold nuclear matter rescattering on the grounds of 'much smaller energy density in a cold nucleus' should be quantified or softened, since Cronin-type and other cold-matter effects are known to be non-negligible at moderate pT and would affect the RAA comparison at the lower end of the plotted range.
[Section 5] The K = 2 factor for higher-order QCD corrections should be identified as a systematic uncertainty on the absolute normalization of the hard cross section, and its effect on RAA and on the extracted T0 should be noted.
[Section 5, Figures 1-4] No uncertainty bands, chi-squared values, or other quantitative measure of fit quality are given for any of the comparisons. At least a qualitative statement of the fit quality, and of the size of the statistical and systematic uncertainties on the data points, would help the reader judge the claimed agreement.
[Section 4 and Abstract] The soft component is described as a 'hydro-type state', but it is a thermal-plus-collective-flow parameterization rather than a hydrodynamic solution. The text does say 'simple approximation', but the abstract wording could mislead; 'hydro-inspired parameterization' would be more accurate.

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The paper presents a fast Monte Carlo that modifies ordinary proton-proton jet events with parton rescattering and energy loss in an expanding quark-gluon plasma, then checks whether the resulting model reproduces the main jet-quenching pat

The reading

The authors want a practical event generator that can take an ordinary high-energy proton-proton jet event and push its hard partons through the dense matter made in a heavy-ion collision, so that jet quenching can be studied without running a full hydrodynamic simulation for every event. Their model, PYQUEN, follows each parton scattering by scattering through an expanding quark-gluon plasma, subtracting both collisional and radiative energy loss, and then handing the modified parton list back to PYTHIA for fragmentation. A simple thermal-plus-flow model supplies the soft bulk, so a full heavy-ion event is a superposition of that bulk and several hard jets. The test is whether this fast construction, with a handful of tuned parameters, reproduces the RHIC patterns: suppressed high-$p_T$ pion yields and the disappearance of the away-side peak in two-particle correlations. If it does, the same tool becomes a workhorse for estimating jet-quenching signals and detector response at RHIC and the LHC.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is an event-by-event parton cascade in which the probability of the next scattering is set by the local mean free path $��lambda=1/(��sigma��rho)$ in a Bjorken-expanding medium with $T(��tau)��tau^{1/3}=T_0��tau_0^{1/3}$. At each scattering the parton loses energy collisionally through high-momentum-transfer elastic scattering and radiates gluons according to the BDMS medium-induced spectrum, with a dead-cone suppression for heavy quarks and a parameterized angular distribution for the emitted gluons. The jet production vertex is distributed according to the nuclear overlap geometry, and the rescattering stops when the parton escapes, the medium cools to $T_c=200$ MeV, or the parton $p_T$ falls below $2T$. The modified partons and in-medium gluons are then fed into PYTHIA fragmentation, while a simple thermal-plus-collective-flow model generates the soft hadronic background.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that a rescattering-by-rescattering Monte Carlo, built as a modification of PYTHIA and using BDMS radiative loss plus Bjorken collisional loss in a longitudinally expanding medium, can reproduce the main jet-quenching observables in central Au+Au collisions at $��sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV. With the initial temperature $T_0=500$ MeV, formation time $��tau_0=0.4$ fm/$c$, and $N_f=2$ active quark flavors, the authors report agreement with the PHENIX $p_T$ and centrality dependence of the neutral-pion nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$, and with the STAR two-particle azimuthal correlation function $C(��Delta��phi)$, including the loss of the away-side peak. The paper presents this as a validated simulation method rather than a first-principles derivation of the medium properties.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the initial temperature and formation time can be extracted from the same $R_{AA}$ data that the model is then said to reproduce, which assumes the hardest-$p_T$ suppression is governed by a single rescattering intensity rather than by several medium and jet parameters that can trade off against one another.

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A fast generator of this kind can produce full heavy-ion events with both soft bulk and hard jets, making it usable for detector studies and signal estimates where a full hydrodynamic simulation would be too slow.
Because the medium density rises with temperature and the model follows the expanding medium, the same setup predicts stronger jet quenching at the LHC than at RHIC, observable in $R_{AA}$ and dijet correlations.
The event-by-event nuclear geometry naturally produces monojet-like configurations: a dijet vertex near the surface lets one jet escape while the other loses most of its energy, which is the paper's explanation for the missing away-side peak.
The method gives a practical baseline for comparing cold nuclear matter with a hot quark-gluon plasma, since the same jet simulation can be run with and without the dense medium.

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The RHIC fit and the RHIC validation are not independent, so the model's LHC predictions should be read as conditional extrapolations; a parameter scan over $T_0$ and $��tau_0$ would show which observables break the degeneracy.
The simple thermal-plus-flow soft sector is likely to limit quantitative use at low $p_T$ and in peripheral collisions, leaving high-$p_T$ jet observables as the method's natural domain.
A useful next test would couple the same parton cascade to a more detailed fluid evolution or to a modern energy-loss formalism and check whether the tuned initial conditions survive.
If the model holds, high-$p_T$ suppression and away-side correlations together could constrain the early temperature and formation time well enough to discriminate between different medium scenarios, even without a first-principles calculation.

Original abstract

The method to simulate the rescattering and energy loss of hard partons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions has been developed. The model is a fast Monte-Carlo tool introduced to modify a standard PYTHIA jet event. The full heavy ion event is obtained as a superposition of a soft hydro-type state and hard multi-jets. The model is applied to analysis of the jet quenching pattern at RHIC.

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The method to simulate the rescattering and energy loss of hard partons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions has been developed. The model is a fast Monte-Carlo tool introduced to modify a standard PYTHIA jet event. The full heavy ion event is obtained as a superposition of a soft hydro-type state and hard multi-jets. The model is applied to analysis of the jet quenching pattern at RHIC.

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**Figure 1.** The pseudorapidity distribution of charged hadrons in Au+Au collisions for three centrality sets. The points are PHOBOS data [34], histograms are the model calculations. 12

**Figure 2.** The transverse momentum distribution of neutral pions in Au+Au collisions for three centrality sets. The points are PHENIX data [35], histograms are the model calculations. 13

**Figure 3.** The nuclear modification factor RAA (21) for neutral pions in Au+Au collisions for two centrality sets. The points are PHENIX data [35], histograms are the model calculations. 14

**Figure 4.** The azimuthal two-particle correlation function for pp and for central Au+Au collisions. The points are STAR data [35], dashed and solid histograms are the model calculations for pp and Au+Au events respectively. 15

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A resummed analytic calculation of multi-prong jet energy loss in a hydrodynamically expanding quark-gluon plasma reproduces LHC jet suppression at R=0.4 and predicts only a mild dependence on jet cone size.
Electron and photon reconstruction and identification with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC
hep-ex 2020-12 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

CMS measures 2 to 5% electron energy resolution, sub-0.1% barrel energy scale uncertainty, and 200 ps timing for electrons from Z decays across 136 fb^-1 of 13 TeV Run 2 data.
Measurement of prompt $\mathrm{D}^0$ and $\overline{\mathrm{D}}^0$ meson azimuthal asymmetry and search for strong electric fields in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV
hep-ex 2020-09 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

The first measurement of the rapidity-dependent v2 difference between D0 and Dbar0 mesons in 5.02 TeV PbPb collisions is consistent with zero: 0.001 ± 0.001 (stat) ± 0.003 (syst).
Modification of Jet Substructure in Heavy Ion Collisions as a Probe of the Resolution Length of Quark-Gluon Plasma
hep-ph 2019-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Groomed jet substructure observables computed in the hybrid strong/weak coupling model separate a plasma that resolves jet constituents from one that does not, and current LHC data disfavor the fully unresolved limit.
Production of $\Lambda_\mathrm{c}^+$ baryons in proton-proton and lead-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV
hep-ex 2019-06 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

CMS reports the first high-transverse-momentum Lambda_c+ spectra in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV, finding a hint of suppression in central collisions and a Lambda_c+/D0 ratio in PbPb consistent with proton-proton.
Measurement of the groomed jet mass in PbPb and pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_\mathrm{NN}}} =$ 5.02 TeV
hep-ex 2018-05 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Soft-drop groomed jet mass in central PbPb collisions shows no modification of the jet core but a weak excess of large-mass jets, and JEWEL and Q-PYTHIA overpredict the effect.
Observation of medium induced modifications of jet fragmentation in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV using isolated-photon-tagged jets
hep-ex 2018-01 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Jets tagged by an isolated photon show an excess of soft particles and a depletion of hard particles in central PbPb collisions relative to pp, with the effect absent in the 50% most peripheral collisions.
Measurement of prompt and nonprompt charmonium suppression in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV
nucl-ex 2017-12 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Prompt and nonprompt J/psi mesons are both suppressed in PbPb collisions with a centrality dependence matching the 2.76 TeV results, while prompt psi(2S) mesons are more suppressed than J/psi across the full measured ...
Measurement of the splitting function in pp and PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}} =$ 5.02 TeV
nucl-ex 2017-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Jets in central lead-lead collisions split into two subjets with a more unequal momentum ratio than jets in proton-proton collisions, the first such groomed splitting-function measurement in heavy-ion data.
Measurement of prompt D$^0$ meson azimuthal anisotropy in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = $5.02 TeV
nucl-ex 2017-08 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Prompt D0 mesons in PbPb collisions show positive elliptic flow across 1 to 40 GeV/c and, for the first time, a triangular flow coefficient peaking near 0.07 at about 4 GeV/c.
Measurement of the B+/- meson nuclear modification factor in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV
hep-ex 2017-05 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Exclusive B+/- mesons are suppressed in PbPb collisions by about a factor of two (R_AA between 0.3 and 0.6 for 7 < pT < 50 GeV/c), consistent with beauty-quark energy loss models.
Azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles with transverse momentum up to 100 GeV in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV
hep-ex 2017-02 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Charged-particle azimuthal anisotropy in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV persists to transverse momenta of 60-80 GeV/c, and its centrality pattern matches a model in which jet energy loss scales linearly with the path len...
Charged-particle nuclear modification factors in PbPb and pPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV
nucl-ex 2016-11 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

At 5.02 TeV, central PbPb collisions suppress charged-particle yields by a factor of 7 to 8 near 7 GeV, rising toward unity by 200 GeV, while pPb shows no such suppression and a mild enhancement above 20 GeV.
Suppression of Upsilon(1S), Upsilon(2S), and Upsilon(3S) production in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2016-11 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

In lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV the Upsilon(1S) yield is suppressed by about a factor of 2 and the Upsilon(2S) by about 8 relative to scaled proton-proton collisions, with the Upsilon(3S) unobserved, matching sequ...
Suppression and azimuthal anisotropy of prompt and nonprompt J/psi production in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2016-10 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Prompt J/psi mesons in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV show a nonzero elliptic anisotropy (v2 = 0.066, 3.3 sigma) with little dependence on centrality, rapidity or pT, while nonprompt J/psi from b-hadron decays are consis...
Measurement of transverse momentum relative to dijet systems in PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2015-09 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

In central lead-lead collisions, the momentum missing from unbalanced dijets is recovered as an excess of low-momentum particles (0.5 to 2 GeV) at large angles from the jet axes, not as a shift in the angular pattern ...
Evidence of b-jet quenching in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2013-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Bottom-quark-tagged jets in lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV are suppressed to a nuclear modification factor of about 0.4, comparable to inclusive jets, indicating no strong flavor or mass dependence of jet quenching ...
Studies of azimuthal dihadron correlations in ultra-central PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2013-12 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

In the 0.2% most central PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV, CMS finds that factorization of dihadron correlations into single-particle flow harmonics breaks down by up to 20% for the second harmonic, consistent with hydrody...
Measurement of higher-order harmonic azimuthal anisotropy in PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2013-10 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

CMS measured the n = 3 to 6 azimuthal anisotropy harmonics of charged particles in 2.76 TeV PbPb collisions with three independent analysis methods, finding a pattern consistent with a strongly coupled fluid whose ini...
Modification of jet shapes in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2013-10 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Jets in central lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV carry less momentum at intermediate radii (0.1 < r < 0.2) and more at the jet edge (r > 0.2) than jets in proton-proton collisions, showing that the quark-gluon plasma ...
Study of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2012-05 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

W boson yields in lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV scale with the number of nucleon-nucleon collisions, and the W+/W- split matches the isospin effect expected from the extra neutrons in lead.
Measurement of jet fragmentation into charged particles in pp and PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2012-05 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Jets that survive the dense medium in lead-lead collisions at the LHC share their remaining momentum among high-momentum particles the same way vacuum jets do, within measurement uncertainties.
Studies of jet quenching using isolated-photon + jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2012-05 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

In central PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV, jets opposite an isolated photon carry on average 0.73 of the photon momentum instead of 0.86, and only 49% of photons have an above-threshold jet versus 69% in a no-energy-loss...
Study of high-pT charged particle suppression in PbPb compared to pp collisions at sqrt(sNN)=2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2012-02 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Charged particles with transverse momentum 5-10 GeV/c are suppressed by up to roughly a factor of 5-7 in central lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV, and the suppression weakens to about a factor of 2 at 40-100 GeV/c.
Centrality dependence of dihadron correlations and azimuthal anisotropy harmonics in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2012-01 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Long-range dihadron correlations in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV factorise into a product of single-particle azimuthal anisotropy harmonics for associated momenta up to about 3 to 3.5 GeV/c, except for the second harmo...
Measurement of isolated photon production in pp and PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2012-01 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Isolated photon production in lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV scales with the number of nucleon-nucleon collisions, with the nuclear modification factor RAA consistent with unity across all centralities and transvers...
Long-range and short-range dihadron angular correlations in central PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center of mass energy of 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2011-05 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

In central 2.76 TeV PbPb collisions, CMS observes near-side long-range (ridge) correlations persisting to |Delta eta| = 4, strongest for associated momenta of 2 to 6 GeV/c and nearly absent for 10 to 12 GeV/c triggers.
Interference effects in medium-induced gluon radiation
hep-ph 2011-05 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

For a color-singlet quark-antiquark dipole in a dense QCD medium, the interference between medium-induced gluon emissions is suppressed by the ratio of a coherence time to the medium length whenever the dipole opening...
Observation and studies of jet quenching in PbPb collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2011-02 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

In central PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV, dijets become strongly momentum-imbalanced, and the imbalance is carried by low-momentum particles emitted at large angles to the away-side jet.
MARTINI: An event generator for relativistic heavy-ion collisions
hep-ph 2009-09 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

A new event generator combines AMY radiative and elastic parton energy loss with PYTHIA fragmentation and hydrodynamic backgrounds, and with one tuned coupling reproduces neutral pion and photon suppression in Au+Au c...
A Monte Carlo Model for 'Jet Quenching'
hep-ph 2008-04 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

A new parton-shower-plus-medium Monte Carlo reproduces LEP jet benchmarks in vacuum and predicts that collisional versus radiative energy loss produce different, separable jet fragmentation patterns above a 2 GeV cut.
Study of jet quenching with Z+jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV
nucl-ex 2017-02 accept novelty 5.5 of 10

In lead-lead collisions at 5.02 TeV, CMS finds fewer and softer jets recoiling against Z bosons than in proton-proton collisions, consistent with parton energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma.
A Simultaneous Description of Hadron and Jet Suppression in Heavy Ion Collisions
hep-ph 2018-08 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

A single-parameter hybrid strong/weak coupling model simultaneously fits LHC jet and hadron suppression data and attributes the hadron-jet suppression gap to medium-induced hardening of the jet fragmentation function.
Measurement of nuclear modification factors of $\Upsilon$(1S), $\Upsilon$(2S), and $\Upsilon$(3S) mesons in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_\mathrm{NN}}} =$ 5.02 TeV
hep-ex 2018-05 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

In lead-lead collisions at 5.02 TeV, CMS finds the Upsilon(1S), Upsilon(2S), and Upsilon(3S) mesons suppressed with a sequential ordering, and sets a 95% confidence upper limit of R_AA < 0.096 for the Upsilon(3S).
Study of jet quenching with isolated-photon+jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}} =$ 5.02 TeV
nucl-ex 2017-11 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

In central PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV, jets opposite an isolated photon carry significantly less momentum than in pp collisions, while the photon-jet angular correlation shows no measurable broadening.
Nuclear modification factor of D$^0$ mesons in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV
nucl-ex 2017-08 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

D0 meson yields in the 10% most central lead-lead collisions at 5.02 TeV are suppressed by a factor of 5 to 6 at 6 to 10 GeV of transverse momentum, easing to about 1.3 at 60 to 100 GeV.
Measurement of inclusive jet cross sections in pp and PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2016-09 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

Inclusive jet yields in PbPb collisions are suppressed relative to pp by a factor that drops from about 0.6 in peripheral events to about 0.45 in the most central 5%, with little dependence on jet pT or on the jet con...
Evidence for transverse momentum and pseudorapidity dependent event plane fluctuations in PbPb and pPb collisions
nucl-ex 2015-03 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

Factorization of two-particle azimuthal correlations into single-particle anisotropies fails in PbPb and pPb collisions, with the breakdown reaching 20% for the second harmonic in ultra-central PbPb and showing a roug...
An Upgrade Proposal from the PHENIX Collaboration
nucl-ex 2015-01 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

PHENIX proposes sPHENIX, a 1.5 T solenoid-based jet and Upsilon detector at RHIC, with GEANT 4 projections showing it could measure jet quenching and Upsilon suppression from 20 to 80 GeV.
Measurements of the Nuclear Modification Factor for Jets in Pb+Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV with the ATLAS Detector
hep-ex 2014-11 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

Jets in central lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV appear at about half the proton-proton rate, with the ratio rising weakly from 0.47 at 55 GeV to 0.56 at 350 GeV and showing no measurable rapidity dependence.
Measurement of jet fragmentation in PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2014-06 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

Jets produced in central lead-lead collisions fragment differently from jets in proton-proton collisions, with a roughly 50% excess of charged particles below 3 GeV inside the jet cone.
Azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles at high transverse momenta in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2012-04 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

Charged-particle elliptic anisotropy v2 in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV peaks near 3 GeV/c, then falls smoothly and stays measurably above zero out to at least 40 GeV/c across all six centrality bins from 0 to 60%.
Jet momentum dependence of jet quenching in PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN)=2.76 TeV
nucl-ex 2012-02 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

Dijet momentum imbalance in central PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV persists essentially unchanged up to leading jet transverse momenta above 300 GeV/c, while peripheral collisions match proton-proton data and a no-quench...
The PYTHIA Facility
hep-ph 2026-03 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

PYTHIA is presented as a 'big science facility' in software form: since 2018 its manuals drew ~9,600 citing works and ~47,000 unique authors across LHC, heavy-ion, flavor, astroparticle, and ML-for-physics communities.
Study of anisotropic flow of heavy hadrons in Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 200 GeV using HYDJET++ framework
hep-ph 2025-06 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

A centrality-tuned HYDJET++ simulation matches STAR charm-hadron elliptic and triangular flow up to pT around 4 GeV/c and predicts v2-v4 for D± and Lambda_c.
Overview of high-density QCD studies with the CMS experiment at the LHC
nucl-ex 2024-05 accept novelty 3.0 of 10

CMS synthesizes its 2010-2018 heavy-ion results into a single case that the quark-gluon plasma is a strongly coupled liquid, that jets and quarkonia are suppressed in it in ordered ways, and that collective behavior e...
Progress in the Glauber model at collider energies
hep-ph 2020-11 accept novelty 3.0 of 10

A decade of LHC and RHIC data confirms that the Glauber model, with improved nuclear profiles and centrality corrections, remains a valid baseline for comparing proton and nuclear collisions.
The CMS trigger system
physics.ins-det 2016-09 accept novelty 3.0 of 10

The CMS two-level trigger reduced the LHC collision rate from 40 MHz to about 400 Hz stored events during Run 1, with measured per-object efficiencies and rates documented across the full luminosity range.

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Simulation of collisions is done by embedding 8 events into collision events produced with the generator (version 1.9) [ref] .

Fragmentation of jets containing a prompt J$/\psi$ meson in PbPb and pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV (2021) · Simulation · 1.00
Modified PYTHIA events for the isospin of the colliding nuclei as in this paper and embedded them in MinBias data.

Isolated photon production in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV PbPb collisions as a function of transverse energy and reaction centrality (2011) · 1.00 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Studied jet-finding performance using dijets simulated with PYTHIA, modified for the isospin content of the colliding nuclei as in this paper.

Observation and studies of jet quenching in PbPb collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy = 2.76 TeV (2011) · 0.96 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
For the $$ MC samples, each 8 event containing a $$ baryon is embedded into a $$ collision event generated with $$ 1.8 [ref] , which is tuned to reproduce global event properties such as the charged-hadron $$ spectrum and particle multiplicity.

Production of $\Lambda_\mathrm{c}^+$ baryons in proton-proton and lead-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV (2019) · Event reconstruction and simulated samples · 1.00
Embedded photon events into background events generated using this paper's version 1.8 to model the underlying PbPb events.

Studies of jet quenching using isolated-photon + jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV (2012) · 0.99 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
The corrections are derived using simulated dijet and photon+jet events generated with the 8.212 [ref] (CUETP8M1 tune [ref] ) Monte Carlo (MC) event generator which, for the case of corrections, are embedded into a simulated underlying background event from 1.9 [ref] .

Study of jet quenching with isolated-photon+jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}} =$ 5.02 TeV (2017) · Jet reconstruction · 0.99
Embedded its events into fully simulated PbPb events generated by this paper's version 1.8 to account for the underlying PbPb event.

Decomposing transverse momentum balance contributions for quenched jets in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV (2016) · 0.99 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Compared a W signal simulation embedded in PbPb events generated with this paper's Hydjet to the data.

W, Z and photon production in CMS (2012) · 0.84 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Corrected the data for detector acceptance and inefficiencies using correction factors estimated from this paper's hydjet 1.8.

Measurement of the pseudorapidity and centrality dependence of the transverse energy density in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV (2012) · 1.00 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Simulated the three states with PYTHIA and embedded them in PbPb events simulated with this paper's version 1.8 to correct yields.

Suppression of Upsilon(1S), Upsilon(2S), and Upsilon(3S) production in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV (2016) · 1.00 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Embedded dijet events into both real data and simulated data using this paper's hydjet generator to simulate heavy-ion underlying event effects.

Studies of Jet Quenching in PbPb collisions at CMS (2011) · 0.99 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Created a sample by embedding signal events in heavy ion events generated with this paper's version 1.9.

Study of jet quenching with Z+jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV (2017) · 0.99 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
At the step of detector digitization, each hard scattering event is placed at the same primary-vertex [ref] location as a heavy ion background event generated with (v1.9) [ref] , to mimic the effects of the UE without any QGP-induced modifications of the final-state particles from the top quark decay.

Evidence for top quark production in nucleus-nucleus collisions (2020) · Introduction · 0.98
Studied quenching effects using both QPYTHIA and this paper's PYQUEN.

Jet Reconstruction in Heavy Ion Collisions (2010) · 1.00 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Embedded PYTHIA6 interactions into simulated minimum-bias PbPb events produced with this paper's HYDJET version 1.383.

Studies of Quark and Gluon Contributions to Jets using Jet Charge Measurements in pp and PbPb Collisions (2020) · 1.00 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
In the case, samples are created by overlapping and signal events with minimum bias (MB) heavy ion events generated with the 1.9 MC event generator [ref] .

Using Z boson events to study parton-medium interactions in PbPb collisions (2021) · Introduction · 1.00
Embedded its events into fully simulated PbPb events generated by this paper's version 1.8 to account for the underlying PbPb events.

Correlations between jets and charged particles in PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV (2016) · 0.99 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Tested the track-weighting procedure using MC events generated with this paper's HYDJET version 1.6 propagated through a full detector simulation.

Centrality dependence of dihadron correlations and azimuthal anisotropy harmonics in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV (2012) · 0.97 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Embedded simulated Upsilon decays in PbPb events simulated with this paper's hydjet to consider the higher PbPb underlying event activity.

Suppression of Upsilon excited states in PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV (2011) · 1.00 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Generated the underlying event for both Jewel and LBT using this paper's hydjet 1.9.

Automated Discovery of Jet Substructure Analyses (2018) · 1.00 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
The simulated events are generated using 8.212 [ref] , tune CP5 [ref] , and embedded into MC events from 1.9 [ref] .

Probing charm quark dynamics via multiparticle correlations in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV (2021) · Introduction · 1.00
Embedded events into PbPb events produced by this paper's hydjet generator version 1.8 to compare with PbPb data.

Evidence of b-jet quenching in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV (2013) · 0.99 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Simulated minimum bias events with this paper's event generator version 1.8 to model the PbPb background.

Jet momentum dependence of jet quenching in PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN)=2.76 TeV (2012) · 0.98 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
For the MC samples, each $8$ event containing a baryon is embedded into a collision event generated with $$ 1.9 [ref] , which is tuned to reproduce global event properties such as the charged-hadron spectrum and particle multiplicity.

Study of charm hadronization with prompt $\Lambda^+_\mathrm{c}$ baryons in proton-proton and lead-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV (2023) · Event selection and simulated event sample · 1.00

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Uses its method or tool 90 papers

Jets including quenching effects have been generated using Pyquen [ref] , v1.5.1, as included in Hydjet [ref] .

Jet Fragmentation Function Moments in Heavy Ion Collisions · Simulation and reconstruction tools · 1.00
In this framework, the soft thermal component is simulated using the FAST MC generator [ref] , while the hard component is modeled with the PYQUEN event generator, which incorporates parton energy loss [ref] .

Study of anisotropic flow of heavy hadrons in Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 200 GeV using HYDJET++ framework · Introduction · 0.98
Simulation of collisions is done by embedding 8 events into collision events produced with the generator (version 1.9) [ref] .

Fragmentation of jets containing a prompt J$/\psi$ meson in PbPb and pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV · Simulation · 1.00

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The results are compared to a measurement by the ALICE Collaboration [ref] and to predictions from the v3400 [ref] , 1.9 [ref] , and 1.26t5 [ref] event generators.

Pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in xenon-xenon collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.44 TeV · Introduction · 1.00
In order to address the sensitivity to modifications of the $A_J$ distributions that might be expected at RHIC here we compare simulations with those from [ref] (a jet quenching parton shower model with parameters tuned to RHIC data).

An Upgrade Proposal from the PHENIX Collaboration · Dijets in collisions · 0.95
Also shown in Fig. [ref] are predictions from the [ref] (v2.2.0) and [ref] (v1.5.4) generators.

First measurement of large area jet transverse momentum spectra in heavy-ion collisions · Results · 0.95

Cites it as background 11 papers

Several implementations of in-medium parton showers have been proposed in the literature [ref] .

Isolating perturbative QCD splittings in heavy-ion collisions · Introduction · 0.81
Based on these experimental data, lots of studies on properties of hadronic $p_T$ distribution are carried out, which greatly improve people's understandings on property of the created hot nuclear matter and the mechanism of hadron production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions [ref] .

Averaged transverse momentum correlations of hadrons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions · Introduction · 0.81
In a heavy ion context, theoretical discussion as to how the fragmentation function could be expected to be modified by the medium were put forward, for instance, in [ref] , and the question can be examined also with the help of Monte Carlo programs that simulate jet fragmentation in a medium [ref] .

Jet Fragmentation Function Moments in Heavy Ion Collisions · Introduction · 0.93

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