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Search for the jet-induced diffusion wake in the quark-gluon plasma via measurements of jet-track correlations in photon-jet events in Pb plus Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Resumo:This paper presents a measurement of jet-track correlations in photon-jet events, using \( 1.72 \text{ nb}^{-1} \) of Pb+Pb data at \( \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 \text{TeV} \) recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events with energetic photon-jet pairs are selected, where the photon and jet are approximately back-to-back in azimuth. The angular correlation between jets and charged-particle tracks with transverse momentum (\( p_T \)) in the range 0.5–2.0 GeV in the hemisphere opposite to the jet, \( |\Delta \phi(\text{jet,track})| > \pi/2 \), is measured as a function of their relative pseudorapidity difference, \( |\Delta \eta(\text{jet,track})| \). In central Pb+Pb collisions, these correlations are predicted to be sensitive to the diffusion wake in the quark-gluon plasma resulting from the lost energy of high-\( p_T \) partons traversing the plasma, with a characteristic modification as a function of \( |\Delta \eta(\text{jet,track})| \). The correlations are examined with different selections on the jet-to-photon \( p_T \) ratio to select events with different degrees of energy loss. No diffusion wake signal is observed within the current sensitivity and upper limits at 95\% confidence level on the diffusion wake amplitude are reported.
Autores principais:Castro, Nuno Filipe
Outros Autores:Onofre, A.; ATLAS Collaboration
Assunto:Ciências Naturais::Ciências Físicas
Ano:2025
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:artigo
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Universidade do Minho
Idioma:inglês
Origem:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Resumo:This paper presents a measurement of jet-track correlations in photon-jet events, using \( 1.72 \text{ nb}^{-1} \) of Pb+Pb data at \( \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 \text{TeV} \) recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events with energetic photon-jet pairs are selected, where the photon and jet are approximately back-to-back in azimuth. The angular correlation between jets and charged-particle tracks with transverse momentum (\( p_T \)) in the range 0.5–2.0 GeV in the hemisphere opposite to the jet, \( |\Delta \phi(\text{jet,track})| > \pi/2 \), is measured as a function of their relative pseudorapidity difference, \( |\Delta \eta(\text{jet,track})| \). In central Pb+Pb collisions, these correlations are predicted to be sensitive to the diffusion wake in the quark-gluon plasma resulting from the lost energy of high-\( p_T \) partons traversing the plasma, with a characteristic modification as a function of \( |\Delta \eta(\text{jet,track})| \). The correlations are examined with different selections on the jet-to-photon \( p_T \) ratio to select events with different degrees of energy loss. No diffusion wake signal is observed within the current sensitivity and upper limits at 95\% confidence level on the diffusion wake amplitude are reported.