Jet quenching and medium response in high-energy heavy-ion collisions: a review

Rep Prog Phys. 2021 Feb;84(2):024301. doi: 10.1088/1361-6633/abc22b.

Abstract

Jet quenching has been used successfully as a hard probe to study properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at both the relativistic heavy-ion collider and the large hadron collider. We will review recent progresses in theoretical and phenomenological studies of jet quenching with jet transport models. Special emphasis is given to effects of jet-induced medium response on a wide variety of experimental observables and their implications on extracting transport properties of the QGP in heavy-ion collisions.