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most citedResolving the Scales of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Energy Correlators

85 citations · 191 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

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…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Deep Image Reconstruction for Background Subtraction in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Umar Sohail Qureshi, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Jet reconstruction in an ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision suffers from a notoriously large, fluctuating thermal background. Traditional background subtraction methods struggl…

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-ph2024

Model-Agnostic Tagging of Quenched Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Umar Sohail Qureshi, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Measurements of jet substructure in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions indicate that interactions with the quark-gluon plasma quench the jet showering process. Modern data-dri…

hep-ph2024

A New Herwig7 Underlying Event Tune: from RHIC to LHC Energies

Umar Sohail Qureshi, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Luke Mozarsky +2

We present parameter sets corresponding to new underlying event tunes for the Herwig7.3 Monte Carlo event generator. The existing Herwig tunes are in good agreement with LHC data,…

hep-ph2024

Minimizing Selection Bias in Inclusive Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions with Energy Correlators

Carlota Andres, Jack Holguin, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli +1

The first-ever measurement of energy correlators within inclusive jets produced in heavy-ion collisions, revealed by the CMS Collaboration, shows a clear enhancement at large angle…

nucl-th2023

Holographic transport coefficients and jet energy loss for the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma

Joaquin Grefa, Mauricio Hippert, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli +4

We employ an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton model, based on the gauge/gravity correspondence, to obtain the thermodynamics and transport properties for the hot and dense quark-gluon plas…

nucl-ex2023★ 4 cited

Hot QCD White Paper

M. Arslandok, S. A. Bass, A. A. Baty +170

Hot QCD physics studies the nuclear strong force under extreme temperature and densities. Experimentally these conditions are achieved via high-energy collisions of heavy ions at t…

hep-ph2022

Enhancing charge ratio sensitivity to hadronization effects via jet selections on resolved SoftDrop splitting

Liliana Apolinário, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Nuno Olavo Madureira

The study of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at ultra-relativistic energies can be performed in a controlled environment through lepton-hadron deep inelastic scatterings. In such coll…

hep-ph2022

Exploring and exploiting various regimes within the jet shower

Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

The last few years have seen community-wide excitement in the study of jet substructure derived from the inner workings of clustering algorithms. Such efforts have resulted in the…

hep-ph2022★ 85 cited

Resolving the Scales of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Energy Correlators

Carlota Andres, Fabio Dominguez, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli +3

Jets provide us with ideal probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions, since its dynamics at its different scales is imprinted into the multi-scale sub…

hep-ph2021

PYTHIA 8 underlying event tune For RHIC energies

Manny Rosales Aguilar, Zilong Chang, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli +7

We report an underlying event tune for the PYTHIA 8 Monte Carlo event generator that is applicable for hadron collisions primarily at ranges available at the Relativisti…

hep-ex2021

Measurement of splittings along a jet shower in GeV pp collisions at STAR

Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Jets are algorithmic proxies of hard scattered partons, i.e. quarks and gluons, in high energy particle collisions. The STAR collaboration presents the first measurements of substr…

hep-ph2020★ 5 cited

Identifying Heavy-Flavor Jets Using Vectors of Locally Aggregated Descriptors

Jana Bielčíková, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Georgy Ponimatkin +2

Jets of collimated particles serve a multitude of purposes in high energy collisions. Recently, studies of jet interaction with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in high energy…

nucl-ex2019

Jet sub-structure and parton shower evolution in p+p and Au+Au collisions at STAR

Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Recent measurements of jet structure modifications at RHIC and LHC highlight the importance of differential measurements to study the nature of jet quenching. Since these jet struc…

hep-ex2019★ 2 cited

Measurements of the jet internal sub-structure and its relevance to parton shower evolution in p+p and Au+Au collisions at STAR

Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Recent measurements of jet structure modifications at RHIC and LHC highlight the importance of differential measurements to study the nature of jet quenching. Since these jet struc…

nucl-ex2019★ 45 cited

Collision energy dependence of second-order off-diagonal and diagonal cumulants of net-charge, net-proton and net-kaon multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +338

We report the first measurements of a complete second-order cumulant matrix of net-charge, net-proton, and net-kaon multiplicity distributions for the first phase of the beam energ…

hep-ph2018★ 11 cited

Probing heavy ion collisions using quark and gluon jet substructure with machine learning

Yang-Ting Chien

Understanding the inner working of the quark-gluon plasma requires complete and precise jet substructure studies in heavy ion collisions. In this proceeding we discuss the use of q…

hep-ex2018

Jetting Through The Primordial Universe

Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Collisions of heavy ion nuclei at relativistic speeds (close to the speed of light) creates a high temperature and very dense form of matter, now known to consist of de-confined qu…

hep-ph2018

Probing heavy ion collisions using quark and gluon jet substructure

Yang-Ting Chien, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

We study the phenomenon of jet quenching utilizing quark and gluon jet substructures as independent probes of heavy ion collisions. We exploit jet and subjet features to highlight…

nucl-th2016

Medium Recoils and background subtraction in JEWEL

Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Korinna Christine Zapp

\textsc{Jewel} is a fully dynamical event generator for jet evolution in a dense QCD medium, which has been validated for multiple jet and jet-like observables. Jet constituents (p…

nucl-th2016★ 2 cited

Jet structure modifications in heavy-ion collisions with JEWEL

Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Key features of jet-medium interactions in heavy-ion collisions are modifications to the jet structure. Recent results from experiments at the LHC and RHIC have motivated several t…

hep-ph2016★ 36 cited

Simulating V+jet processes in heavy ion collisions with JEWEL

Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Korinna Christine Zapp

Processes in which a jet recoils against an electroweak boson complement studies of jet quenching in heavy ion collisions at the LHC. As the boson does not interact strongly it esc…

hep-ex2016

Jet Measurements in Heavy-ion Collisions with CMS

Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

The production of a strongly interacting medium in heavy-ion collisions is identified through suppression of high transverse momentum jets leading to an effect known as jet quenchi…