Hadronic Matter's Impact on Jet Energy Loss

This paper investigates how the properties of hadronic matter influence the energy loss of energetic partons (quarks and gluons) as they traverse the hot, dense medium created in heavy-ion collisions. The authors introduce a modification to the dispersion relations of partons, effectively accounting for the interactions with the medium's constituents. This allows them to model jet modification, including the nuclear modification factor and elliptic flow, across different collision energies and centralities, extending the applicability of jet energy loss calculations into the hadronic phase.