Measurement of jet suppression in central Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.04.039

Measurement of jet suppression in central Pb–Pb collisions at √s_NN=2.76 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

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Abstract

The transverse momentum (p_T) spectrum and nuclear modification factor (R_AA) of reconstructed jets in 0–10% and 10–30% central Pb–Pb collisions at s_NN=2.76 TeV were measured. Jets were reconstructed using the anti-k_T jet algorithm with a resolution parameter of R=0.2 from charged and neutral particles, utilizing the ALICE tracking detectors and Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMCal). The jet p_T spectra are reported in the pseudorapidity interval of |η_jet|<0.5 for 40<p_T,jet<120 GeV/c in 0–10% and for 30<p_T,jet<100 GeV/c in 10–30% collisions. Reconstructed jets were required to contain a leading charged particle with p_T>5 GeV/c to suppress jets constructed from the combinatorial background in Pb–Pb collisions. The leading charged particle requirement applied to jet spectra both in pp and Pb–Pb collisions had a negligible effect on the R_AA. The nuclear modification factor R_AA was found to be 0.28±0.04 in 0–10% and 0.35±0.04 in 10–30% collisions, independent of p_T,jet within the uncertainties of the measurement. The observed suppression is in fair agreement with expectations from two model calculations with different approaches to jet quenching.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-14
Number of pages	14
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	746
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.04.039
State	Published - Jun 30 2015
Externally published	Yes

Funding

The ALICE Collaboration would like to thank all its engineers and technicians for their invaluable contributions to the construction of the experiment and the CERN accelerator teams for the outstanding performance of the LHC complex. The ALICE Collaboration gratefully acknowledges the resources and support provided by all Grid centers and the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) collaboration. The ALICE Collaboration acknowledges the following funding agencies for their support in building and running the ALICE detector: State Committee of Science, World Federation of Scientists (WFS) and Swiss Fonds Kidagan, Armenia; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Chinese Ministry of Education (CMOE) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MSTC); Ministry of Education and Youth of the Czech Republic; Danish Natural Science Research Council, the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish National Research Foundation; The European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme; Helsinki Institute of Physics and the Academy of Finland; French CNRS–IN2P3, the ‘Region Pays de Loire’ ‘Region Alsace’ ‘Region Auvergne’ and CEA, France; German Bundesministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) and the Helmholtz Association; General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Development, Greece; Hungarian Orszagos Tudomanyos Kutatasi Alappgrammok (OTKA) and National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH); Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and Centro Fermi – Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi” Italy; MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research, Japan; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Consejo Nacional de Cienca y Tecnologia (CONACYT), Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico (DGAPA), México, Amerique Latine Formation academique–European Commission (ALFA–EC) and the EPLANET Program (European Particle Physics Latin American Network); Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Netherlands; Research Council of Norway (NFR); National Science Centre of Poland; Ministry of National Education/Institute for Atomic Physics and Consiliul Naţional al Cercetării Ştiinţifice–Executive Agency for Higher Education Research Development and Innovation Funding (CNCS–UEFISCDI), Romania; Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federal Agency of Atomic Energy, Russian Federal Agency for Science and Innovations and The Russian Foundation for Basic Research; Ministry of Education of Slovakia; Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa; Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (CIEMAT), E-Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America (EELA), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain, Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación), Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Cubaenergía, Cuba, and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency); Swedish Research Council (VR) and Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW); Ukraine Ministry of Education and Science; United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); The United States Department of Energy, the United States National Science Foundation, the State of Texas, and the State of Ohio; Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia and Unity through Knowledge Fund, Croatia. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India. The ALICE Collaboration would like to thank all its engineers and technicians for their invaluable contributions to the construction of the experiment and the CERN accelerator teams for the outstanding performance of the LHC complex. The ALICE Collaboration gratefully acknowledges the resources and support provided by all Grid centers and the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) collaboration. The ALICE Collaboration acknowledges the following funding agencies for their support in building and running the ALICE detector: State Committee of Science , World Federation of Scientists (WFS) and Swiss Fonds Kidagan , Armenia; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico ( CNPq ), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos ( FINEP ), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo ( FAPESP ); National Natural Science Foundation of China ( NSFC ), the Chinese Ministry of Education (CMOE) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MSTC); Ministry of Education and Youth of the Czech Republic ; Danish Natural Science Research Council , the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish National Research Foundation ; The European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme ; Helsinki Institute of Physics and the Academy of Finland ; French CNRS–IN2P3 , the ‘Region Pays de Loire’, ‘Region Alsace’, ‘Region Auvergne’ and CEA , France; German Bundesministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie ( BMBF ) and the Helmholtz Association ; General Secretariat for Research and Technology , Ministry of Development , Greece; Hungarian Orszagos Tudomanyos Kutatasi Alappgrammok ( OTKA ) and National Office for Research and Technology ( NKTH ); Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India ; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare ( INFN ) and Centro Fermi – Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi” , Italy; MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research, Japan; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research , Dubna; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Consejo Nacional de Cienca y Tecnologia ( CONACYT ), Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico ( DGAPA ), México, Amerique Latine Formation academique–European Commission ( ALFA–EC ) and the EPLANET Program (European Particle Physics Latin American Network); Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie ( FOM ) and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Netherlands; Research Council of Norway (NFR); National Science Centre of Poland ; Ministry of National Education/Institute for Atomic Physics and Consiliul Naţional al Cercetării Ştiinţifice–Executive Agency for Higher Education Research Development and Innovation Funding ( CNCS–UEFISCDI ), Romania; Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation , Russian Academy of Sciences , Russian Federal Agency of Atomic Energy , Russian Federal Agency for Science and Innovations and The Russian Foundation for Basic Research ; Ministry of Education of Slovakia ; Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa ; Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (CIEMAT), E-Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America ( EELA ), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain, Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación), Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear ( CEADEN ), Cubaenergía , Cuba, and IAEA ( International Atomic Energy Agency ); Swedish Research Council (VR) and Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW); Ukraine Ministry of Education and Science ; United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); The United States Department of Energy , the United States National Science Foundation , the State of Texas, and the State of Ohio; Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia and Unity through Knowledge Fund , Croatia. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India.

Funders	Funder number
Danish Natural Science Research Council
Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India
Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico ( DGAPA ), México, Amerique Latine Formation academique
General Secretariat for Research and Technology , Ministry of Development
Helsinki Institute of Physics
Hungarian Orszagos Tudomanyos Kutatasi Alappgrammok
Ministry of Education and Youth of the Czech Republic
Ministry of Education of Slovakia
Ministry of National Education/Institute for Atomic Physics and Consiliul Naţional al Cercetării Ştiinţifice–Executive Agency for Higher Education Research Development
Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia and Unity
NFR
Region Auvergne’ and CEA
Russian Federal Agency of Atomic Energy , Russian Federal Agency for Science and Innovations
State Committee of Science , World Federation
Swiss Fonds Kidagan
United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council
Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Corporation for National and Community Service
Alabama Farmers Federation
Unity through Knowledge Fund
California Earthquake Authority
Science and Technology Facilities Council	2014 STFC Nuclear Physics CG, ST/M001601/1, ST/L005689/1, ALICE, ST/L005751/1, GRIDPP, ST/J000094/1, ST/J000108/1, ST/L005670/1, ST/M00158X/1, ST/M001598/1
European Commission
European Research Council
Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	15H03664, 25287048, 26610071, 26220707
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Academy of Finland
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Russian Academy of Sciences
Ministry of Education
Carlsbergfondet
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
National Research Foundation of Korea
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Nemzeti Kutatási és Technológiai Hivatal
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Vetenskapsrådet
International Atomic Energy Agency
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Seventh Framework Programme
Norges Forskningsråd
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Frauen
State Committee of Science
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
Helmholtz Association
Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire
Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi
Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear

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