Measurement of the jet radius and transverse momentum dependence of inclusive jet suppression in lead–lead collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.024

Measurement of the jet radius and transverse momentum dependence of inclusive jet suppression in lead–lead collisions at √s_NN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Department of Physics

University of Freiburg
University of Oklahoma
Institute for High Energy Physics
Université Paris-Sud
University of Geneva
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Oklahoma State University
Michigan State University
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
CEA Saclay (Commissariat À l'Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives)
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
University of Milan
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
AGH University of Krakow
United States Department of Energy
Hampton University
Yale University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Queen Mary University of London
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Brandeis University
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
University of Bern
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Boston University
Stony Brook University
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Bogazici University
Lund University
The University of Tokyo
RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
SUNY Albany
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Victoria BC
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
CERN
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
University of Udine
Humboldt University of Berlin
University of Pennsylvania
University of Birmingham

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Abstract

Measurements of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions at the LHC provide direct sensitivity to the physics of jet quenching. In a sample of lead–lead collisions at s_NN=2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 7 μb⁻¹, ATLAS has measured jets with a calorimeter system over the pseudorapidity interval |η|<2.1 and over the transverse momentum range 38<p_T<210 GeV. Jets were reconstructed using the anti-k_t algorithm with values for the distance parameter that determines the nominal jet radius of R=0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5. The centrality dependence of the jet yield is characterized by the jet “central-to-peripheral ratio,” R_CP. Jet production is found to be suppressed by approximately a factor of two in the 10% most central collisions relative to peripheral collisions. R_CP varies smoothly with centrality as characterized by the number of participating nucleons. The observed suppression is only weakly dependent on jet radius and transverse momentum. These results provide the first direct measurement of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions and complement previous measurements of dijet transverse energy imbalance at the LHC.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	220-241
Number of pages	22
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	719
Issue number	4-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.024
State	Published - 26 Feb 2013

Keywords

ATLAS
Heavy ion
Jets
LHC

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Measurement of the jet radius and transverse momentum dependence of inclusive jet suppression in lead–lead collisions at √s_NN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / ATLAS Collaboration.
In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Vol. 719, No. 4-5, 26.02.2013, p. 220-241.

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Measurement of the jet radius and transverse momentum dependence of inclusive jet suppression in lead–lead collisions at √s_NN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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