27 May 2012 to 1 June 2012
Cagliari - Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Measurement of jet spectra in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=2.76 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC

31 May 2012, 14:40
20m
Plenary room T1 A+B (Cagliari - Italy)

Plenary room T1 A+B

Cagliari - Italy

T-Hotel Conference Centre

Speaker

Marta Verweij (Utrecht University)

Description

We report a measurement of transverse momentum spectra of ets detected with the ALICE detector in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_NN}$=2.76 TeV. Jets are reconstructed from charged particles using the anti-$k_{T}$ jet algorithm. The background from soft particle production is determined for each event and subtracted. The remaining influence of underlying event fluctuations is quantified by embedding different probes into heavy-ion data. The reconstructed transverse momentum spectrum is corrected for background fluctuations by unfolding. We compare the inclusive jet spectra reconstructed with R=0.2 and R=0.3 for different centrality classes and compare the jet yield in Pb-Pb and pp events.

Primary author

Marta Verweij (Utrecht University)

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