Hot and Cold QCD White Paper from ALICE-USA: Input for 2023 U.S. Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science
The ALICE-USA collaboration presents its plans for the 2023 U.S. Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science.
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The ALICE-USA collaboration presents its plans for the 2023 U.S. Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science.
Modification of the hard jet substructure in terms of the Soft Drop jet grooming algorithm observables is studied for three different scenarios of jet quenching in a quark-gluon plasma: i) an explicit enhancement of the parton splitting functions, ii) increased soft gluon emissions induced by an in-medium virtuality gain, and iii) energy loss due to a drag force. Despite the fact that first two scenarios both correspond to a radiative energy loss mechanism and lead to similar modifications of parton showers, they are shown to have very different impacts on the momentum balance of hard subjets. Simulations for heavy-ion collisions based on the second scenario are presented and found to be in a good agreement with the experimental data.