Jet-like correlations with neutral pion triggers in pp and central Pb–Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV

Collaboration
Aug 25, 2016
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 763 (2016) 238-250
  • Published: Dec 10, 2016
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2016-195
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We present measurements of two-particle correlations with neutral pion trigger particles of transverse momenta 83 GeV/c , while with decreasing momenta an enhancement develops reaching about 5 at low pTassoc . On the near side, an enhancement of IAA between 1.2 at the highest to 1.8 at the lowest pTassoc is observed. The data are compared to parton-energy-loss predictions of the JEWEL and AMPT event generators, as well as to a perturbative QCD calculation with medium-modified fragmentation functions. All calculations qualitatively describe the away-side suppression at high pTassoc . Only AMPT captures the enhancement at low pTassoc , both on the near and away side. However, it also underpredicts IAA above 5 GeV/c , in particular on the near-side.
Note:
  • correlation: two-particle
  • pi: trigger
  • hadron: charged particle
  • enhancement
  • suppression
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • p p: scattering
  • transverse momentum
  • parton: energy loss
  • fragmentation function