The different energy loss mechanisms of inclusive and b-tagged reconstructed jets within ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions

TL;DR

This paper investigates the energy loss mechanisms of inclusive and b-tagged jets in heavy-ion collisions using BAMPS, revealing suppression patterns and proposing jet shape modifications as discriminators for heavy quark energy loss models.

Contribution

It provides a detailed simulation of light and heavy flavor jet suppression using BAMPS and introduces the medium modification of b-tagged jet shapes as a new observable.

Findings

Both light and heavy flavor jets are suppressed in collisions.

Elastic+radiative interactions match experimental b-jet suppression.

Predicted R dependence of jet suppression offers new insights.

Abstract

The phenomenon of jet quenching provides essential information about the properties of hot and dense matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Recent results from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) show evidence for an unexpectedly similar suppression of both light and heavy flavor jets. Furthermore, the role of radiative energy loss of heavy quarks is still under active discussion within the theoretical community. By employing the parton cascade Boltzmann Approach to Multi-Parton Scatterings (BAMPS), which numerically solves the 3+1D Boltzmann equation both for light and heavy flavor partons, we calculate the nuclear modification factor of inclusive and b-tagged reconstructed jets in 0-10% central $\sqrt{s_{\rm LHC}}$ = 2.76 ATeV Pb+Pb collisions. Based on perturbative QCD cross sections we find a suppression of both light and heavy flavor jets. While the inclusive jets are slightly too strong suppressed within BAMPS in comparison with data, both elastic+radiative and only elastic interactions lead to a realistic b-tagged jet suppression. To further investigate light and heavy flavor energy loss we predict the R dependence of inclusive and b-tagged jet suppression. Furthermore, we propose the medium modification of b-tagged jet shapes as an observable for discriminating between different heavy quark energy loss scenarios.