Observation of Enhanced Long-Range Elliptic Anisotropies Inside High-Multiplicity Jets in pp Collisions at s=13TeV

Collaboration
Dec 28, 2023
20 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 133 (2024) 14, 142301
  • Published: Sep 30, 2024
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CMS-HIN-21-013,
  • CERN-EP-2023-281
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Abstract: (APS)
A search for collective effects inside jets produced in proton-proton collisions is performed via correlation measurements of charged particles using the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The analysis uses data collected at a center-of-mass energy of s=13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb-1. Jets are reconstructed with the anti-kT algorithm with a distance parameter of 0.8 and are required to have transverse momentum greater than 550 GeV and pseudorapidity |ηjet|<1.6. Two-particle correlations among the charged particles within the jets are studied as functions of the particles’ azimuthal angle and pseudorapidity separations (Δϕ* and Δη*) in a jet coordinate basis, where particles’ η*, ϕ* are defined relative to the direction of the jet. The correlation functions are studied in classes of in-jet charged-particle multiplicity up to Nchj100. Fourier harmonics are extracted from long-range azimuthal correlation functions to characterize azimuthal anisotropy for |Δη*|>2. For low-Nchj jets, the long-range elliptic anisotropic harmonic, v2*, is observed to decrease with Nchj. This trend is well described by Monte Carlo event generators. However, a rising trend for v2* emerges at Nchj80, hinting at a possible onset of collective behavior, which is not reproduced by the models tested. This observation yields new insights into the dynamics of jet evolution in the vacuum.
Note:
  • p p: scattering
  • p p: colliding beams
  • correlation: two-particle
  • charged particle: multiplicity
  • parton: fragmentation
  • multiplicity: dependence
  • angular distribution: anisotropy
  • angular correlation: long-range
  • correlation function
  • collective phenomena