Full jet tomography of high-energy nuclear collisions

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent theoretical developments in understanding how high-energy jets are modified by quark-gluon plasma in nuclear collisions, focusing on jet shapes, cross sections, and vector boson-associated jets.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical studies on full jet observables and their modifications due to jet quenching in the quark-gluon plasma.

Findings

Jet shapes are significantly modified in heavy-ion collisions.

Inclusive jet cross sections are suppressed due to energy loss.

Vector boson-associated jets serve as probes of the QGP medium.

Abstract

Parton energy loss in the hot QCD medium will manifest itself not only in leading hadron spectra but also in reconstructed jet productions in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. In this paper we report on recent theoretical efforts in studying full jet observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions by discussing the modifications of jet shapes, inclusive jet cross section and the vector boson accompanied jet production in the presence of the QGP-induced jet quenching.