Search for quasi-particle scattering in the quark-gluon plasma with jet splittings in pp and PbPb collisions at = 5.02 TeV
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The ALICE Collaboration reports measurements of the large relative transverse momentum () component of jet substructure in pp and in central and semicentral PbPb collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair TeV. Enhancement in the yield of such large- emissions in central PbPb 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- algorithm with resolution parameter in the transverse-momentum interval . The soft drop and dynamical grooming algorithms are used to identify high transverse momentum splittings in the jet shower. Comparison of measurements in PbPb and pp collisions shows medium-induced narrowing, corresponding to yield suppression of high- 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.Note:
- 26 pages, 4 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 20, submitted to PRL, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/11331
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