Study of Jet Quenching with Z+jetZ+\text{jet} Correlations in Pb-Pb and pppp Collisions at sNN=5.02  TeV{\sqrt{s}}_{NN}=5.02\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}

Collaboration
Feb 3, 2017
18 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 119 (2017) 8, 082301
  • Published: Aug 23, 2017
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Report number:
  • CMS-HIN-15-013,
  • CERN-EP-2017-002
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Abstract: (APS)
The production of jets in association with Z bosons, reconstructed via the μ+μ- and e+e- decay channels, is studied in pp and, for the first time, in Pb-Pb collisions. Both data samples were collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV. The Pb-Pb collisions were analyzed in the 0%–30% centrality range. The back-to-back azimuthal alignment was studied in both pp and Pb-Pb collisions for Z bosons with transverse momentum pTZ>60  GeV/c and a recoiling jet with pTjet>30  GeV/c. The pT imbalance xjZ=pTjet/pTZ, as well as the average number of jet partners per Z, RjZ, was studied in intervals of pTZ. The RjZ is found to be smaller in Pb-Pb than in pp collisions, which suggests that in Pb-Pb collisions a larger fraction of partons associated with the Z bosons fall below the 30  GeV/c pTjet threshold because they lose energy.
Note:
  • p p: scattering
  • jet: energy resolution
  • jet: correlation
  • jet: production
  • jet: quenching
  • angular distribution
  • electron: decay
  • transverse momentum
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • CERN LHC Coll