The physics program of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) has brought a unique insight into the hot and dense QCD matter created in such collisions, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Jet quenching, a collection of medium-induced modifications of the jets’ internal structure that occur through their development in dense QCD matter, has a unique potential to assess the time structure of the produced medium. In this work, we perform an exploratory study to identify jet reclustering tools that can potentiate future QGP tomographic measurements with jets at current energies. Our results show that by using the inverse of formation time to obtain the jet clustering history, one can identify more accurately the time structure of QCD emissions inside jets, even in the presence of jet quenching.
Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions have unlocked the study of a hot, dense state of QCD matter, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). However, due to its short lifetime, on the yoctosecond scale, the QGP must be studied with recourse to external probes, such as jets, collimated sprays of particles originated from the hard scattering. Since jets are multi-scale probes, we can use jet quenching, the collection of medium modifications of the jets' substructure, to study the evolution of medium properties at various times In this work, we show that one can assign a time structure to jets by using the formation time of a parton's emission. The obtained clustering history can be accurately reconstructed, and the medium modifications can be studied at various timescales, potentiating future tomographic measurements of the QGP. Further, by classifying jets according to the formation time of the first unclustering step, one can select, out of an inclusive measurement, jet populations that were strongly modified by the QGP. This selection of jet populations by their quenching magnitude can help to distinguish specific features of jet-QGP interaction.
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