Measurement of photon–jet transverse momentum correlations in 5.02 TeV Pb + Pb and pp collisions with ATLAS

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.023

Measurement of photon–jet transverse momentum correlations in 5.02 TeV Pb + Pb and pp collisions with ATLAS

The ATLAS collaboration

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
CERN
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

Jets created in association with a photon can be used as a calibrated probe to study energy loss in the medium created in nuclear collisions. Measurements of the transverse momentum balance between isolated photons and inclusive jets are presented using integrated luminosities of 0.49 nb⁻¹ of Pb + Pb collision data at s_NN=5.02 TeV and 25 pb⁻¹ of pp collision data at s=5.02 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Photons with transverse momentum 63.1<p_T ^γ<200 GeV and |η^γ|<2.37 are paired with all jets in the event that have p_T ^jet>31.6 GeV and pseudorapidity |η^jet|<2.8. The transverse momentum balance given by the jet-to-photon p_T ratio, x_Jγ, is measured for pairs with azimuthal opening angle Δϕ>7π/8. Distributions of the per-photon jet yield as a function of x_Jγ, (1/N_γ)(dN/dx_Jγ), are corrected for detector effects via a two-dimensional unfolding procedure and reported at the particle level. In pp collisions, the distributions are well described by Monte Carlo event generators. In Pb + Pb collisions, the x_Jγ distribution is modified from that observed in pp collisions with increasing centrality, consistent with the picture of parton energy loss in the hot nuclear medium. The data are compared with a suite of energy-loss models and calculations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	167-190
Number of pages	24
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	789
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.023
State	Published - Feb 10 2019

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