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Main Authors: Apolinário, Liliana, Roux, Chiara Le, Zapp, Korinna
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11914
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  • The onset of jet quenching, i.e. the suppression of high transverse momentum particles and jets, is an important question in the context of understanding the onset of collective behaviour and small collision systems. We investigate a minimal scenario where a hard parton experiences a single soft re-scattering that leaves the kinematics unmodified, but the colour exchange leads to a loss of colour coherence that is observable in the final distribution of fragments. In particular, the formation time of the first splitting as reconstructed at hadron level from jets using the formation time clustering algorithm is sensitive the loss of colour coherence. Moreover, it can distinguish the coherence loss scenario from a corresponding energy loss scenario, since small energy loss effects leave the formation time distribution unchanged.