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Jet substructure measurements in heavy-ion collisions with ALICE

Nuclear Experiment 2021-10-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Jet substructure, defined by observables constructed from the distribution of constituents within a jet, provides the versatility to tailor observables to specific regions of QCD radiation phase space. This flexibility provides exciting new opportunities to study jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions and to ultimately help reveal the nature of the quark-gluon plasma. The ALICE detector is particularly well-suited to jet substructure measurements in heavy-ion collisions due to its high-precision tracking system. In these proceedings, we report several new jet substructure measurements in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02 TeV with ALICE. These include the first fully corrected measurements of the groomed jet momentum splitting fraction, zgz_{\rm{g}}, and the groomed jet radius, θgRg/R\theta_{\rm{g}} \equiv R_{\rm{g}}/R, as well as NN-subjettiness and the fragmentation distribution of reclustered sub-jets. These measurements are compared to theoretical calculations and provide new constraints on the physics underlying jet quenching.

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@article{arxiv.2110.05411,
  title  = {Jet substructure measurements in heavy-ion collisions with ALICE},
  author = {James Mulligan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05411},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Proceedings of the EPS-HEP Conference, 2021. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2110.01431