  Recent advances in soft-collinear effective theory with Glauber gluons have
led to the development of a new method that gives a unified description of
inclusive hadron production in reactions with nucleons and heavy nuclei. We
show how this approach, based on the generalization of the DGLAP evolution
equations to include final-state medium-induced parton showers, can be combined
with initial-state effects for applications to jet quenching phenomenology. We
demonstrate that the traditional parton energy loss calculations can be
regarded as a special soft-gluon emission limit of the general QCD evolution
framework. We present phenomenological comparison of the SCET$_{\rm G}$-based
results on the suppression of inclusive charged hadron and neutral pion
production in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV lead-lead collisions at the Large Hadron
Collider to experimental data. We also show theoretical predictions for the
upcoming $\sqrt{s_{NN}} \simeq 5.1$ TeV Pb+Pb run at the LHC.
