Observation and studies of jet quenching in PbPb collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy = 2.76 TeV.

Stephanie Beauceron, Freya Blekman, Stijn Blyweert, Jorgen D'Hondt, Olivier Devroede, Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Joris Maes, Michael Maes, Walter Van Doninck, Petra Van Mulders, Gerrit Van Onsem, Ilaria Villella

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Abstract

Jet production in PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV was studied with the CMS detector at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.7 inverse microbarns. Jets are reconstructed using the energy deposited in the CMS calorimeters and studied as a function of collision centrality. With increasing collision centrality, a striking imbalance in dijet transverse momentum is observed, consistent with jet quenching. The observed effect extends from the lower cut-off used in this study (jet transverse momentum = 120 GeV/c) up to the statistical limit of the available data sample (jet transverse momentum approximately 210 GeV/c). Correlations of charged particle tracks with jets indicate that the momentum imbalance is accompanied by a softening of the fragmentation pattern of the second most energetic, away-side jet. The dijet momentum balance is recovered when integrating low transverse momentum particles distributed over a wide angular range relative to the direction of the away-side jet.
Original languageEnglish
Article number024906
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume84
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords

  • heavy ion : scattering
  • lead
  • jet : hadroproduction
  • jet : pair production
  • impact parameter : dependence
  • angular correlation : (2jet)
  • jet : transverse momentum
  • transverse momentum : difference
  • charged particle : transverse momentum
  • jet : fragmentation
  • jet : particle identification
  • parton : energy loss
  • experimental results
  • CMS
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • 2760 GeV-cms/nucleon

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