Measurement of Jet Fragmentation in PbPb and pp Collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 2.76 TeV

Collaboration
Jun 3, 2014
20 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 90 (2014) 2, 024908
  • Published: Aug 18, 2014
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Report number:
  • CMS-HIN-12-013,
  • CERN-PH-EP-2014-100
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Abstract: (APS)

The jet fragmentation function of inclusive jets with transverse momentum pT above 100GeV/c in PbPb collisions has been measured using reconstructed charged particles with pT above 1GeV/c in a cone of radius 0.3 around the jet axis. A data sample of PbPb collisions collected in 2011 at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of sNN=2.76TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 150μb1 is used. The results for PbPb collisions as a function of collision centrality and jet transverse momentum are compared to reference distributions based on pp data collected at the same center-of-mass energy in 2013, with an integrated luminosity of 5.3pb1. A centrality-dependent modification of the fragmentation function is found. For the most central collisions, a significant enhancement is observed in the PbPb/pp fragmentation function ratio for charged particles with pT less than 3GeV/c. This enhancement is observed for all jet pT bins studied.

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  • Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI
  • 25.75.-q
  • 13.87.Fh
  • jet: fragmentation function
  • jet: transverse momentum
  • jet: inclusive production
  • fragmentation function: ratio
  • p p: scattering
  • charged particle: transverse momentum
  • impact parameter: dependence
  • transverse momentum dependence