Modification of jet shapes in PbPb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV

Chatrchyan, S. and Khachatryan, V. and Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. and Adam, W. and Bergauer, T. and Dragicevic, M. and Erö, J. and Fabjan, C. and Friedl, M. and Frühwirth, R. and Ghete, V. M. and Hörmann, N. and Hrubec, J. and Jeitler, M. and Kiesenhofer, W. and Knünz, V. and Krammer, M. and Krätschmer, I. and Liko, D. and Mikulec, I. and Rabady, D. and Rahbaran, B. and Rohringer, C. and Rohringer, H. and Schöfbeck, R. and Strauss, J. and Taurok, A. and Treberer-Treberspurg, W. and Waltenberger, W. and Bencze, György and Hajdu, Csaba and Hidas, Pál and Horváth, Dezső and Siklér, Ferenc and Veszprémi, Viktor and Vesztergombi, György and Zsigmond, Anna Júlia and Béni, Noémi Tekla and Molnár, József and Pálinkás, József and Szillási, Zoltán and Karancsi, János and Raics, Péter and Trócsányi, Zoltán and Ujvári, Balázs and Veres, Gábor (2014) Modification of jet shapes in PbPb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 730. pp. 243-263. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

The first measurement of jet shapes, defined as the fractional transverse momentum radial distribution, for inclusive jets produced in heavy-ion collisions is presented. Data samples of PbPb and pp collisions, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 150 μb−1 and 5.3 pb−1 respectively, were collected at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of- mass energy of √sNN = 2.76 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The jets are re- constructed with the anti-kT algorithm with a distance parameter R = 0.3, and the jet shapes are measured for charged particles with transverse momentum pT > 1 GeV/c. The jet shapes measured in PbPb collisions in different collision centralities are com- pared to reference distributions based on the pp data. A centrality-dependent modi- fication of the jet shapes is observed in the more central PbPb collisions, indicating a redistribution of the energy inside the jet cone. This measurement provides informa- tion about the parton shower mechanism in the hot and dense medium produced in heavy-ion collisions.

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