Three models for charged hadron nuclear modification from light to heavy ions
Abstract
In July 2025 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collided 16O16O and 20Ne20Ne isotopes in a quest to understand the physics of ultrarelativistic light ion collisions. One of the key motivations for this run is to discover partonic energy loss in systems with a small quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this letter we combine a BDMPS-Z based model, a path-length based energy loss prescription, and JEWEL together with two realistic geometries of the 16O and 20Ne isotopes. The different sizes of the ions affect the energy loss in characteristically different ways depending on the model.
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