Jet quenching in the hadron gas: an exploratory study

Understand

The suppression of high momentum particles in heavy-ion collisions in comparison to elementary reactions is one of the main indications for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma.

• In recent studies, full jets are being reconstructed and substructure observables are gaining importance in assessing the medium modifications of hard probes.
• In this work, the effect of the late stage hadronic interactions are explored within the hadronic transport approach SMASH (Simulating Many Accelerated Strongly-interacting Hadrons).
• High momentum particles are incorporated in a radially expanding hadron gas to analyse the corresponding angular distributions, also refered to as `jet shape' observables.