Jet substructure

Abstract

Jet substructure observables hold the keys to identifying the inner working of the quark–gluon plasma through its imprints in jet modification patterns. Because of the multi-scale nature of jet evolution, the strategy has focused on developing jet reclustering-based and jet shape-based observables to specifically probe different stages of jet evolution, which provide multi-dimensional quantification of jet particle distribution phase spaces. The developments of jet substructure in the past few years allowed us to explore the correlations among jet observables. The richer information beyond single-observable modifications could give provides a crucial step beyond the energy loss paradigm. This review surveys the theory and phenomenology of modern jet substructure observables, which help constraining the energy scales of medium interactions and identifying heavy flavor quarks within jets. Also, the peculiar soft activities point to more refined studies of medium responses to jets.