# Holographic Jet Shapes and their Evolution in Strongly Coupled Plasma

## TL;DR

This paper advances the holographic modeling of jet evolution in strongly coupled plasma by analyzing full string dynamics, enabling detailed predictions of jet shape modifications beyond just opening angles.

## Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis of full string dynamics for holographic jets, allowing detailed study of jet shape evolution in strongly coupled plasma.

## Key findings

- Jet shape scales with opening angle at fixed energy.
- Ensemble of dijets shows specific modifications after plasma traversal.
- Full string dynamics provide new insights into jet nullification and evolution.

## Abstract

Recently our group analyzed how the probability distribution for the jet opening angle is modified in an ensemble of jets that has propagated through an expanding cooling droplet of plasma [1]. Each jet in the ensemble is represented holographically by a string in the dual 4+1- dimensional gravitational theory with the distribution of initial energies and opening angles in the ensemble given by perturbative QCD. In [1], the full string dynamics were approximated by assuming that the string moves at the speed of light. We are now able to analyze the full string dynamics for a range of possible initial conditions, giving us access to the dynamics of holographic jets just after their creation. The nullification timescale and the features of the string when it has nullified are all results of the string evolution. This emboldens us to analyze the full jet shape modification, rather than just the opening angle modification of each jet in the ensemble as in [1]. We find the result that the jet shape scales with the opening angle at any particular energy. We construct an ensemble of dijets with energies and energy asymmetry distributions taken from events in proton-proton collisions, opening angle distribution as in [1], and jet shape taken from proton-proton collisions and scaled according to our result. We study how these observables are modified after we send the ensemble of dijets through the strongly-coupled plasma.