We perform a numerical study of nonlocal partonic transport in anisotropic QCD matter, relevant to the evolution of hard probes in the aftermath of high-energy nuclear scattering events. The recently derived master equation, obtained from quantum field theory considerations, differs from Boltzmann transport by incorporating a nonlocal elastic scattering kernel arising from density gradients. After rewriting the master equation in a form suitable for numerical implementation and assuming a static density profile, we compare the nonlocal evolution to Boltzmann transport, demonstrating that the new interaction kernel is essential for accurately describing the azimuthal structure of the final-state momentum distribution. We further study the nonlocal partonic transport in the case of a matter profile governed by two-dimensional hydrodynamics, accounting for its flow and generalizing the evolution equation. Our results demonstrate the necessity of going beyond classical transport at high $p_t$ to accurately capture the structure of jets propagating through structured QCD matter. The master equation used in the numerical simulations can be seamlessly integrated into state-of-the-art transport codes.

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• Jet quenching
• Jets & heavy flavor physics
• Quark & gluon jets
• Quark-gluon plasma
• Transport in heavy-ion collisions