TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of jet quenching with semi-inclusive hadron-jet distributions in central Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV
AU - The ALICE collaboration
AU - Adam, J.
AU - Adamová, D.
AU - Aggarwal, M. M.
AU - Aglieri Rinella, G.
AU - Agnello, M.
AU - Agrawal, N.
AU - Ahammed, Z.
AU - Ahn, S. U.
AU - Aimo, I.
AU - Aiola, S.
AU - Ajaz, M.
AU - Akindinov, A.
AU - Alam, S. N.
AU - Aleksandrov, D.
AU - Alessandro, B.
AU - Alexandre, D.
AU - Alfaro Molina, R.
AU - Alici, A.
AU - Alkin, A.
AU - Almaraz, J. R.M.
AU - Alme, J.
AU - Alt, T.
AU - Altinpinar, S.
AU - Altsybeev, I.
AU - Alves Garcia Prado, C.
AU - Andrei, C.
AU - Andronic, A.
AU - Anguelov, V.
AU - Anielski, J.
AU - Antičić, T.
AU - Antinori, F.
AU - Antonioli, P.
AU - Aphecetche, L.
AU - Appelshäuser, H.
AU - Arcelli, S.
AU - Armesto, N.
AU - Arnaldi, R.
AU - Arsene, I. C.
AU - Arslandok, M.
AU - Audurier, B.
AU - Augustinus, A.
AU - Averbeck, R.
AU - Azmi, M. D.
AU - Bach, M.
AU - Badalà, A.
AU - Baek, Y. W.
AU - Bagnasco, S.
AU - Bailhache, R.
AU - Kang, J. H.
AU - Kwon, Y.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, The Author(s).
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - We report the measurement of a new observable of jet quenching in central Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV, based on the semi-inclusive rate of charged jets recoiling from a high transverse momentum (high-pT) charged hadron trigger. Jets are measured using collinear-safe jet reconstruction with infrared cutoff for jet constituents of 0.15 GeV, for jet resolution parameters R = 0.2, 0.4 and 0.5. Underlying event background is corrected at the event-ensemble level, without imposing bias on the jet population. Recoil jet spectra are reported in the range 20 < pT,jetch < 100 GeV. Reference distributions for pp collisions at √s = 2.76TeV are calculated using Monte Carlo and NLO pQCD methods, which are validated by comparing with measurements in pp collisions at √s = 7TeV. The recoil jet yield in central Pb-Pb collisions is found to be suppressed relative to that in pp collisions. No significant medium-induced broadening of the intra-jet energy profile is observed within 0.5 radians relative to the recoil jet axis. The angular distribution of the recoil jet yield relative to the trigger axis is found to be similar in central Pb-Pb and pp collisions, with no significant medium-induced acoplanarity observed. Large-angle jet deflection, which may provide a direct probe of the nature of the quasi-particles in hot QCD matter, is explored.
AB - We report the measurement of a new observable of jet quenching in central Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV, based on the semi-inclusive rate of charged jets recoiling from a high transverse momentum (high-pT) charged hadron trigger. Jets are measured using collinear-safe jet reconstruction with infrared cutoff for jet constituents of 0.15 GeV, for jet resolution parameters R = 0.2, 0.4 and 0.5. Underlying event background is corrected at the event-ensemble level, without imposing bias on the jet population. Recoil jet spectra are reported in the range 20 < pT,jetch < 100 GeV. Reference distributions for pp collisions at √s = 2.76TeV are calculated using Monte Carlo and NLO pQCD methods, which are validated by comparing with measurements in pp collisions at √s = 7TeV. The recoil jet yield in central Pb-Pb collisions is found to be suppressed relative to that in pp collisions. No significant medium-induced broadening of the intra-jet energy profile is observed within 0.5 radians relative to the recoil jet axis. The angular distribution of the recoil jet yield relative to the trigger axis is found to be similar in central Pb-Pb and pp collisions, with no significant medium-induced acoplanarity observed. Large-angle jet deflection, which may provide a direct probe of the nature of the quasi-particles in hot QCD matter, is explored.
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP09(2015)170
DO - 10.1007/JHEP09(2015)170
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84943167400
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2015
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 9
M1 - 170
ER -