Charged jet cross section and fragmentation in proton-proton collisions at root S=7 TeV

0502221 - ÚJF 2020 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Acharya, S. - Adamová, Dagmar - Bielčík, J. - Bielčíková, Jana - Broz, M. - Contreras, J. G. - Horák, D. - Křížek, Filip - Kučera, Vít - Kushpil, Svetlana - Lavička, R. - Mareš, Jiří A. - Petráček, V. - Šumbera, Michal - Závada, Petr … Total 1016 authors
Charged jet cross section and fragmentation in proton-proton collisions at root S=7 TeV.
Physical Review D. Roč. 99, č. 1 (2019), č. článku 012016. ISSN 2470-0010. E-ISSN 2470-0029
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTT17018
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ - 90058
Institutional support: RVO:68378271 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : ALICE collaboration * heavy ion experiments * pp collisions
OECD category: Nuclear physics; Particles and field physics (FZU-D)
Impact factor: 4.833, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.012016

We report the differential charged jet cross section and jet fragmentation distributions measured with the ALICE detector in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy root S = 7 TeV. Jets with pseudorapidity vertical bar eta vertical bar < 0.5 are reconstructed from charged particles using the anti-k(T) jet-finding algorithm with a resolution parameter R = 0.4. The jet cross section is measured in the transverse momentum interval 5 <= p(T)(ch jet) < 100 GeV/c. Jet fragmentation is studied measuring the scaled transverse momentum spectra of the charged constituents of jets in four intervals of jet transverse momentum between 5 and 30 GeV/c. The measurements are compared to calculations from the PYTHIA model as well as next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations with POWHEG+PYTHIA8. The charged jet cross section is well described by POWHEG for the entire measured range of p(T)(ch jet). For p(T)(ch jet) > 40 GeV/c, the PYTHIA calculations also agree with the measured charged jet cross section. PYTHIA6 simulations describe the fragmentation distributions to 15%. Larger discrepancies are observed for PYTHIA8.
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