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Jet reconstruction in heavy ion collisions (emphasis on Underlying Event background subtraction)

Nuclear Experiment 2009-10-15 v1

Abstract

A modification of the internal structure of jets is expected due to the production of a dense QCD medium, the Quark Gluon Plasma, in heavy-ion collisions. We discuss some aspects of jet reconstruction in p+p and A+A collisions and emphasize the dramatically increased contribution of the underlying event in nucleus-nucleus collisions as compared with the vacuum case. We conclude with its consequences on the full jet spectrum and fragmentation function extraction at LHC.

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@article{arxiv.0910.2482,
  title  = {Jet reconstruction in heavy ion collisions (emphasis on Underlying Event background subtraction)},
  author = {M. Estienne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.2482},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, talk given at First International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC, "MPI@LHC'08", Perugia, Italy, October 27-31 2008