Studies of the jet axis decorrelation with photon-jet events in PbPb and pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV

Aug 1, 2024, 9:40 AM
20m
Palazzo Ducale (Genova, Italy)

Palazzo Ducale

Genova, Italy

Talk Heavy Ions Heavy Ions

Speaker

Molly Park (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

Description

search for medium-induced jet transverse momentum broadening is performed with isolated photon-tagged jet events in proton-proton (pp) and lead-lead (PbPb) collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy $5.02\TeV$. The difference between jet axes as determined via energy-weight and winner-take-all clustering schemes, also known as the decorrelation of jet axes and denoted $\Delta j$, is measured for the first time in photon-tagged jet events. The pp and PbPb data samples were recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to integrated luminosities of 1.69 nb$^{-1}$ and 302 pb$^{-1}$ respectively. Events are required to have a leading isolated photon with $60 < p_{T}^{\gamma} < 200 \GeVc$, which are correlated with anti-\kt $R = 0.3$ jets with $30 < p_{T}^{jet} < 100 \GeVc$ opposite in azimuthal angle. The PbPb results are reported as a function of collision centrality and compared to pp reference data. Jets with $p_{T}^{jet} < 60 \GeVc$ have consistent shape in PbPb relative to pp. However, jets with $p_{T}^{jet} > 60 \GeVc$ in central PbPb show signs of narrowing relative to pp. The results are compared to the \jewel and \pyquen theoretical models, which include different methods of energy loss.

Primary authors

Molly Park (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) hongbo liao

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