Let's only consider iterative jet clustering algorithms. Famous ones are the $k_{T}$ ($p = 1$), anti-$k_{T}$ ($p = -1$) and Cambridge/Aachen ($p = 0$) jet reconstruction algorithms.
All these algorithms are based on the following quantity, which is a distance measure between the hadrons e. g.: $$d_{ij} \equiv \min\left\{ p^{2p}_{i, T}; p^{2p}_{j, T} \right\}\cdot \frac{\Delta^{2}_{ij}}{ R^{2} }.$$
Question: Why are only $p_{i, T}$ and $p_{j, T}$ considered, but not the three-momenta? After all, we don't know the initial $z$-component of the colliding partons, but we usually can measure the $z$-component of the hadrons in the ECAL/HCAL, cannot we?