Measurement of inclusive and leading subjet fragmentation in pp and Pb–Pb collisions at √s.sub.NN./sub. = 5.02 TeV

0575566 - ÚJF 2024 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Acharya, S. - Adamová, Dagmar - Adler, A. - Aglieri Rinella, G. - Bielčík, J. - Bielčíková, Jana - Broz, M. - Contreras, J. G. - Filová, V. - Grecká, Ekaterina - Grund, D. - Herman, T. - Horák, D. - Isakov, Artem - Kotliarov, Artem - Krupová, D. M. - Křížek, Filip - Křížková Gajdošová, K. - Kushpil, Svetlana - Petráček, V. - Šafařík, K. - Torres, S. R. - Závada, Petr … Total 1032 authors
Measurement of inclusive and leading subjet fragmentation in pp and Pb–Pb collisions at √s_NN = 5.02 TeV.
Journal of High Energy Physics. Roč. 2023, č. 5 (2023), č. článku 245. ISSN 1029-8479. E-ISSN 1029-8479
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ III - 90240
Institutional support: RVO:68378271 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : ALICE collaboration * Jets and Jet Substructure * Quark-Gluon Plasma
OECD category: Nuclear physics; Particles and field physics (FZU-D)
Impact factor: 5.4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2023)245

This article presents new measurements of the fragmentation properties of jets in both proton-proton (pp) and heavy-ion collisions with the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We report distributions of the fraction z(r) of transverse momentum carried by subjets of radius r within jets of radius R. Charged-particle jets are reconstructed at midrapidity using the anti-k(T) algorithm with jet radius R = 0.4, and subjets are reconstructed by reclustering the jet constituents using the anti-k(T) algorithm with radii r = 0.1 and r = 0.2. In proton-proton collisions, we measure both the inclusive and leading subjet distributions. We compare these measurements to perturbative calculations at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, which suggest a large impact of threshold resummation and hadronization effects on the z(r) distribution. In heavy-ion collisions, we measure the leading subjet distributions, which allow access to a region of harder jet frag- mentation than has been probed by previous measurements of jet quenching via hadron fragmentation distributions. The z(r) distributions enable extraction of the parton-to-subjet fragmentation function and allow for tests of the universality of jet fragmentation functions in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We find no significant modification of z(r) distributions in Pb-Pb compared to pp collisions. However, the distributions are also consistent with a hardening trend for z(r)< 0.95, as predicted by several jet quenching models. As z(r) -> 1 our results indicate that any such hardening effects cease, exposing qualitatively new possibilities to disentangle competing jet quenching mechanisms. By comparing our results to theoretical calculations based on an independent extraction of the parton-to-jet fragmentation function, we find consistency with the universality of jet fragmentation and no indication of factorization breaking in the QGP.
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