English

Jet quenching and $\gamma$-jet correlation in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-10-28 v2

Abstract

Medium modification of γ\gamma-tagged jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions is investigated within a linearized Boltzmann transport model which includes both elastic parton scattering and induced gluon emission. In Pb+Pb collisions at s=2.76\sqrt{s}=2.76 TeV, a γ\gamma-tagged jet is seen to lose 15\% of its energy at 0-10\% central collisions. Simulations also point to a sizable azimuthal angle broadening of γ\gamma-tagged jets at the tail of a distribution which should be measurable when experimental errors are significantly reduced. An enhancement at large zjet=pL/Ejetz_\text{jet}=p_L/E_{\text{jet}} in jet fragmentation function at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be attributed to the dominance of leading particles in the reconstructed jet. A γ\gamma-tagged jet fragmentation function is shown to be more sensitive to jet quenching, therefore a better probe of the jet transport parameter.

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@article{arxiv.1404.0031,
  title  = {Jet quenching and $\gamma$-jet correlation in high-energy heavy-ion collisions},
  author = {Xin-Nian Wang and Yan Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0031},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected, Proceeding for "6th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2013)"