Yang-Ting Chien

Resummation of Jet Mass at Hadron Colliders

A method is developed for calculating the jet mass distribution at hadron colliders using an expansion about the kinematic threshold. In particular, we consider the mass distribution of jets of size R produced in association with a hard photon at the Large Hadron Collider. Expanding around the kinematic threshold, where all the energy goes into the jet and the photon, provides a clean factorization formula and allows for the resummation of logarithms associated with soft and collinear divergences. All of the large logarithms of jet mass are resummed at next-to-leading logarithmic level (NLL), and all the global logarithms at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic level (NNLL). A key step in the derivation is the factorization of the soft function into pieces associated with single scales and a remainder which contains non-global structure. This step, which is standard in traditional resummation, is implemented in effective field theory which is then used to resum the large logarithms using the renormalization group in a systematically improvable manner.

Towards the understanding of jet shapes and cross sections in heavy ion collisions using soft-collinear effective theory

A bstractWe calculate the jet shape and the jet cross section in heavy ion collisions using soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) and its extension with Glauber gluon interactions in the medium (SCETG). We use the previously developed framework to systematically resum the jet shape at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, and we consistently include the medium modification by incorporating the leading order medium-induced splitting functions. The calculation provides, for the first time, a quantitative understanding of the jet shape modification measurement in lead-lead collisions at sNN=2.76

Jet Shape Resummation Using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76

Probing the Hardest Branching within Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions

TeV at the LHC. The inclusive jet suppression is also calculated within the same framework beyond the traditional concept of parton energy loss, and the dependence on the centrality, the jet radius and the jet kinematics is examined. In the end we present predictions for the anticipated jet shape and cross section measurements in lead-lead collisions at sNN≈5.1

Telescoping jet substructure

\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} \approx 5.1