Heavy-flavor jet properties and correlations from small to large systems with ALICE

TL;DR

This paper reports on measurements of heavy-flavor jets and correlations in proton-proton, proton-lead, and lead-lead collisions at the LHC, providing insights into QCD dynamics across different system sizes.

Contribution

It presents the latest experimental results on heavy-flavor jet properties and correlations from ALICE, comparing their behavior in various collision systems.

Findings

Heavy-flavor jets show system-dependent modifications.

Correlation patterns vary between small and large systems.

Results help understand heavy-quark production and energy loss in QCD matter.

Abstract

The early production of heavy-flavor (HF, charm and beauty) quarks makes them an excellent probe of the dynamical evolution of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) systems. Jets tagged by the presence of a HF hadron give access to the kinematics of the heavy quarks, and along with correlation measurements involving HF hadrons allow for comparisons of their production, propagation and fragmentation across different systems. In this contribution the latest results on HF jets and correlations measured with the ALICE detector in pp, p--Pb and Pb--Pb collisions from the LHC Run 2 data are reported.