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Jet shapes in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at ALICE

Nuclear Experiment 2019-08-13 v1

Abstract

The aim of this work is to explore possible medium modifications to the substructure of inclusive charged jets in Pb-Pb relative to proton-proton collisions by measuring a set of jet shapes. The set of shapes includes the radial moment, gg, and the momentum dispersion pTp_{\mathrm{T}}D. They provide complementary information on the fragmentation and can help to discriminate between two different scenarios: intra-jet broadening or collimation as a result of jet quenching. \noindent The shapes are measured in Pb--Pb collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV with a constituent cutoff of 0.15 GeV/c and jet resolution R=R= 0.2. New techniques for background subtraction are applied and a two-dimensional unfolding is performed to correct the shapes to particle level. The corrected jet shapes for jet pTp_{\mathrm{T}} 40pT,jet6040\le p_{\mathrm{T,jet}} \le 60 GeV/c are presented and discussed. The observed jet shape modifications suggest that the in-medium fragmentation is harder and more collimated than vacuum fragmentation as obtained by a PYTHIA calculation. The PYTHIA calculation is validated with proton-proton data at 7 TeV.

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@article{arxiv.1512.07882,
  title  = {Jet shapes in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at ALICE},
  author = {Leticia Cunqueiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.07882},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of Quark Matter 2015, KOBE, Japan