
Oxana Smirnova
Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of division

Comparison of Fragmentation Functions for Jets Dominated by Light Quarks and Gluons from pp and Pb+Pb Collisions in ATLAS
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Summary, in English
Charged-particle fragmentation functions for jets azimuthally balanced by a high-transverse-momentum, prompt, isolated photon are measured in 25 pb-1 of pp and 0.49 nb-1 of Pb+Pb collision data at 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurements are compared to predictions of Monte Carlo generators and to measurements of inclusively selected jets. In pp collisions, a different jet fragmentation function in photon-tagged events from that in inclusive jet events arises from the difference in fragmentation between light quarks and gluons. The ratios of the fragmentation functions in Pb+Pb events to that in pp events are used to explore the parton color-charge dependence of jet quenching in the hot medium. In relatively peripheral collisions, fragmentation functions exhibit a similar modification pattern for photon-tagged and inclusive jets. However, photon-tagged jets are observed to have larger modifications than inclusive jets in central Pb+Pb events. © 2019 CERN.
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2019
Language
English
Publication/Series
Physical Review Letters
Volume
123
Issue
4
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- Charged particles
- Colliding beam accelerators
- Photons
- Tellurium compounds
- Charge dependence
- Fragmentation functions
- Isolated photons
- Jet fragmentation
- Large Hadron Collider
- Monte Carlo generator
- Particle fragmentation
- Transverse momenta
- Lead compounds
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1079-7114