Measurement of the angle between jet axes in PbPb collisions at TeV
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This letter presents the first measurement of the angle between different jet axes (denoted as ) in PbPb collisions. The measurement is carried out in the 010% most-central events at TeV. Jets are assembled by clustering charged particles at midrapidity using the anti- algorithm with resolution parameters and and transverse momenta in the intervals GeV/ and GeV/, respectively. Measurements at these low transverse momenta enhance the sensitivity to quarkgluon plasma (QGP) effects. A comparison to models implementing various mechanisms of jet energy loss in the QGP shows that the observed narrowing of the PbPb distribution relative to pp can be explained if quark-initiated jets are more likely to emerge from the medium than gluon-initiated jets. These new measurements discard intra-jet broadening as described in a model calculation with the BDMPS formalism as the main mechanism of energy loss in the QGP. The data are sensitive to the angular scale at which the QGP can resolve two independent splittings, favoring mechanisms that incorporate incoherent energy loss.Note:
- 17 pages, 3 captioned figures, authors from page 12, submitted to PRL, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/9206
- transverse momentum: low
- gluon: plasma
- jet: energy loss
- GeV
- TeV
- broadening
- charged particle
- sensitivity
- splitting
- cluster
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