Using Event-Shape Engineering to Constrain Jet Energy Loss Mechanisms in Pb-Pb Collisions at √s_NN = 5.02 TeV in ALICE

It has long been understood that jets, the hadronic showers generated by hard-scattered partons, lose energy to the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The relative contributions of the energy-loss mechanisms, however, remain to be quantified. One approach to constraining these values is to investigate the link between hard and soft observables. By applying the technique of Event-Shape Engineering (ESE), we can assess how the soft behaviour of the medium is correlated with the level of jet suppression. Notably, this technique selects ensembles of events within a centrality class, allowing direct access to observables that depend on the shape of the QGP droplet while minimizing effects from a varying temperature. In this talk, I will present the status of the charged-jet R_AA analysis for central and semi-central collisions using Pb-Pb data at 5.02 TeV. I will then discuss plans for the application of event-shape selection to this sample of jets.