Medium modification of the shape of small-radius jets in central Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV
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We present the measurement of a new set of jet shape observables for trackbased jets in central Pb-Pb collisions at p sNN = 2:76TeV. The set of jet shapes includes the rst radial moment or angularity, g; the momentum dispersion, pTD; and the di erence between the leading and sub-leading constituent track transverse momentum, LeSub. These observables provide complementary information on the jet fragmentation and can constrain di erent aspects of the theoretical description of jet-medium interact ...
We present the measurement of a new set of jet shape observables for trackbased jets in central Pb-Pb collisions at p sNN = 2:76TeV. The set of jet shapes includes the rst radial moment or angularity, g; the momentum dispersion, pTD; and the di erence between the leading and sub-leading constituent track transverse momentum, LeSub. These observables provide complementary information on the jet fragmentation and can constrain di erent aspects of the theoretical description of jet-medium interactions. The jet shapes were measured for a small resolution parameter R = 0:2 and were fully corrected to particle level. The observed jet shape modi cations indicate that in-medium fragmentation is harder and more collimated than vacuum fragmentation as obtained by PYTHIA calculations, which were validated with the measurements of the jet shapes in proton-proton collisions at p s = 7TeV. The comparison of the measured distributions to templates for quark and gluon-initiated jets indicates that in-medium fragmentation resembles that of quark jets in vacuum. We further argue that the observed modi cations are not consistent with a totally coherent energy loss picture where the jet loses energy as a single colour charge, suggesting that the medium resolves the jet structure at the angular scales probed by our measurements (R = 0:2). Furthermore, we observe that small-R jets can help to isolate purely energy loss e ects from other e ects that contribute to the modi cations of the jet shower in medium such as the correlated background or medium response. ...
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The journal of high energy physics. Trieste. No. 10 (Oct. 2018), 139, 28 p.
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