Search for quasi-particle scattering in the quark-gluon plasma with jet splittings in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02 TeV

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Sep 19, 2024
26 pages
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  • CERN-EP-2024-238
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The ALICE Collaboration reports measurements of the large relative transverse momentum (kTk_{\text{T}}) component of jet substructure in pp and in central and semicentral Pb-Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}=5.02 TeV. Enhancement in the yield of such large-kTk_{\text{T}} emissions in central Pb-Pb collisions is predicted to arise from partonic scattering with quasi-particles of the quark-gluon plasma. The analysis utilizes charged-particle jets reconstructed by the anti-kTk_{\text{T}} algorithm with resolution parameter R=0.2R=0.2 in the transverse-momentum interval 60<pT,ch jet<8060 < p_{\text{T,ch jet}} < 80GeV/c\text{GeV}/c. The soft drop and dynamical grooming algorithms are used to identify high transverse momentum splittings in the jet shower. Comparison of measurements in Pb-Pb and pp collisions shows medium-induced narrowing, corresponding to yield suppression of high-kTk_{\text{T}} splittings, in contrast to the expectation of yield enhancement due to quasi-particle scattering. The measurements are compared to theoretical model calculations incorporating jet quenching, both with and without quasi-particle scattering effects. These measurements provide new insight into the underlying mechanisms and theoretical modeling of jet quenching.
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