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Z+jet productions in heavy-ion collisions

Nuclear Theory 2019-02-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We report a systematic study of Z+jet correlation in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC by combining the next-leading-order matrix elements calculations with matched parton shower in Sherpa for the initial Z+jet production, and Linear Boltzmann transport Model for jet propagation in the expanding quark-gluon-plasma. Our numerical results can well explain CMS measurements on Z+jet correlation in Pb+Pb collisions: the shift of pTp_T imbalance xjZ=pTjet/pTZx_{jZ}=p_T^{jet}/p_T^Z and their mean values, the suppression of the average number of jet partners per Z boson RjZR_{jZ}, as well as the modification of azimuthal angle correlations ΔϕjZ\Delta \phi_{jZ}. We also demonstrate that high-order corrections play a significant role in the understanding of Z+jet correlations at high energies.

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@article{arxiv.1807.06197,
  title  = {Z+jet productions in heavy-ion collisions},
  author = {Shan-Liang Zhang and Tan Luo and Xin-Nian Wang and Ben-Wei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.06197},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, talk at Quark Matter 2018 conference