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Comparison of Fragmentation Functions for Jets Dominated by Light Quarks and Gluons from pp and Pb+Pb Collisions in ATLAS

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • iThemba Labs
  • Department of Physics
  • University of South Africa
  • Cadi Ayyad University
  • Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science Innovation and Research (MAScIR)
  • Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
  • NOVA University Lisbon
  • CERN
  • Mohamed I University
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • The University of Tokyo
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Bogazici University
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Kyoto University
  • Lund University
  • University of Geneva
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Washington

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Abstract

Charged-particle fragmentation functions for jets azimuthally balanced by a high-transverse-momentum, prompt, isolated photon are measured in 25 pb-1 of pp and 0.49 nb-1 of Pb+Pb collision data at 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurements are compared to predictions of Monte Carlo generators and to measurements of inclusively selected jets. In pp collisions, a different jet fragmentation function in photon-tagged events from that in inclusive jet events arises from the difference in fragmentation between light quarks and gluons. The ratios of the fragmentation functions in Pb+Pb events to that in pp events are used to explore the parton color-charge dependence of jet quenching in the hot medium. In relatively peripheral collisions, fragmentation functions exhibit a similar modification pattern for photon-tagged and inclusive jets. However, photon-tagged jets are observed to have larger modifications than inclusive jets in central Pb+Pb events.

Original languageEnglish
Article number042001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume123
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 22 2019

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