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most citedProbing the Short-Distance Structure of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Energy Correlators

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nucl-th2026

The elliptic wind on jet wakes in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Kai-Yi Wu, Zhong Yang, Xin-Nian Wang

Energy loss by fast partons induces a Mach-cone-like medium response as they propagate inside the hot quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Because the QGP…

hep-ph2026

Energy-energy correlators inside single inclusive jets in heavy-ion collisions with CoLBT-hydro model

Zhong Yang, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Xin-Nian Wang

The energy-energy correlator (EEC) inside jets is a sensitive observable for studying jet modification in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). However, its interpretation in heavy-ion col…

nucl-th2026

Study of jet-induced hydro response in high-energy heavy-ion collisions with a flow-matching generative model

Kai-Yi Wu, Zhong Yang, Long-Gang Pang +1

In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, propagation of the energy deposited into the medium by energetic partons that traverse the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) leads to Mach-cone-like jet…

nucl-th2026

Probing Jet-Medium Interactions in Heavy-Ion Collisions Using Energy-Energy Correlators

Rushil Saraswat, Aditya Prasad Dash, Huan Zhong Huang +3

Energy-energy correlators (EECs) provide a sensitive probe of both perturbative and nonperturbative dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Jet-medium interactions enhance p…

hep-ph2025

3D Structure of Jet-induced Diffusion Wake

Zhong Yang, Xin-Nian Wang

Jet-induced diffusion wake in heavy-ion collisions has a unique 3D structure as manifested in the jet-hadron correlations in rapidity and azimuthal angle. The rapidity asymmetry ob…

hep-ph2025

Diffusion wake: a distinctive consequence of the Mach-cone wake induced by supersonic jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Zhong Yang, Xin-Nian Wang

In this Research Perspective, we briefly review the diffusion wake, a distinctive consequence of the Mach-cone wake induced by the supersonic jets in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion c…

hep-ph2025

A background-free signal of jet-induced diffusion wake in quark-gluon plasma

Zhong Yang, Xin-Nian Wang

Rapidity asymmetry of jet-hadron correlation has been proposed as a robust signal of dijet-induced diffusion wake in quark-gluon plasma in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We gene…

hep-ph2025

Flavor dependence of Energy-energy correlators

Liliana Apolinário, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Nuno Olavo Madureira +3

Energy-energy correlators (EECs) within high energy jets serve as a key experimentally accessible quantity to probe the scale and structure of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in relat…

hep-ph2025

Rapidity asymmetry of jet-hadron correlation as a robust signal of diffusion wake induced by di-jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Zhong Yang, Xin-Nian Wang

Diffusion wake accompanying a Mach cone is a unique feature of the medium response to projectiles traveling at a speed faster than the velocity of sound. This is also the case for…

nucl-th2024

Jet-Induced Enhancement of Deuteron Production in and -Pb Collisions at the LHC

Yi-Heng Feng, Che Ming Ko, Yu-Gang Ma +4

Jet-associated deuteron production in collisions at TeV and -Pb collisions at TeV is studied in the coalescence model by using the phase-…

hep-ph2023★ 68 cited

Probing the Short-Distance Structure of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Energy Correlators

Zhong Yang, Yayun He, Ian Moult +1

Energy-energy-correlators (EEC's) are a promising observable to study the dynamics of jet evolution in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) through its imprint on angular scales in the ene…

nucl-ex2023★ 18 cited

Predictions for the sPHENIX physics program

Ron Belmont, Jasmine Brewer, Quinn Brodsky +25

sPHENIX is a next-generation detector experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, designed for a broad set of jet and heavy-flavor probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma created i…

nucl-th2022★ 23 cited

Deep learning assisted jet tomography for the study of Mach cones in QGP

Zhong Yang, Yayun He, Wei Chen +3

Mach cones are expected to form in the expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP) when energetic quarks and gluons (called jets) traverse the hot medium at a velocity faster than the speed…

hep-ph2022★ 55 cited

3D structure of jet-induced diffusion wake in an expanding quark-gluon plasma

Zhong Yang, Tan Luo, Wei Chen +2

The diffusion wake accompanying the jet-induced Mach cone provides a unique probe of the properties of quark-gluon plasma in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. It can be characteriz…

hep-ph2021★ 46 cited

Search for the elusive jet-induced diffusion wake in -jets with 2D jet tomography in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Zhong Yang, Wei Chen, Yayun He +3

Diffusion wake is an unambiguous part of the jet-induced medium response in high-energy heavy-ion collisions that leads to a depletion of soft hadrons in the opposite direction of…