Symmetry (Mar 2023)

Heavy-Flavour Jets in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

  • Sa Wang,
  • Wei Dai,
  • Enke Wang,
  • Xin-Nian Wang,
  • Ben-Wei Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15030727
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 3
p. 727

Abstract

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Reconstructed jets initiated from heavy quarks provide a powerful tool to probe the properties of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) and to explore the mass hierarchy of jet quenching. In this article, we review the recent theoretical progresses on heavy-flavour jets in high-energy nuclear collisions at the RHIC and LHC. We focus on the yields and substructures of charm and bottom quark jets with jet-quenching effects, such as the nuclear modification factors, transverse momentum imbalance, angular correlation, radial profiles, fragmentation functions, the “dead-cone” effect, etc.

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