Observation of Medium-Induced Modifications of Jet Fragmentation in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV Using Isolated Photon-Tagged Jets
Physical Review Letters 2018
Viesturs Veckalns, CERN international group of authors

Measurements of fragmentation functions for jets associated with an isolated photon are presented for the first time in pp and Pb-Pb collisions. The analysis uses data collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV. Fragmentation functions are obtained for jets with pTjet>30 GeV/c in events containing an isolated photon with pTγ>60 GeV/c, using charged tracks with transverse momentum pTtrk>1 GeV/c in a cone around the jet axis. The association with an isolated photon constrains the initial pT and azimuthal angle of the parton whose shower produced the jet. For central Pb-Pb collisions, modifications of the jet fragmentation functions are observed when compared to those measured in pp collisions, while no significant differences are found in the 50% most peripheral collisions. Jets in central Pb-Pb events show an excess (depletion) of low (high) pT particles, with a transition around 3 GeV/c. This measurement shows for the first time the in-medium shower modifications of partons (quark dominated) with well-defined initial kinematics. It constitutes a new well-controlled reference for testing theoretical models of the parton passage through the quark-gluon plasma.


DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.242301
Hipersaite
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.242301

Veckalns, V., international group of authors, C. Observation of Medium-Induced Modifications of Jet Fragmentation in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV Using Isolated Photon-Tagged Jets. Physical Review Letters, 2018, Vol.121, No.24, 1.-10.lpp. ISSN 0031-9007. e-ISSN 1079-7114. Pieejams: doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.242301

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