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Measurement of substructure-dependent suppression of large-radius jets with charged particles in Pb+Pb collisions with ATLAS

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 871, no. 139929, p. 17
Publication date2025
First online date2025-11-07
Abstract

Measurements of jet substructure in Pb+Pb collisions provide key insights into the mechanism of jet quenching in the hot and dense QCD medium created in these collisions.This Letter presents a measurement of the suppression of large-radius jets with a radius parameter of R=1.0 and its dependence on the jet substructure. The measurement uses 1.72 nb−1 of Pb+Pb data and 255 pb−1 of pp data, both at sNN=5.02 TeV, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Large-radius jets are reconstructed by reclustering R=0.2 calorimetric jets and are measured for transverse momentum above 200 GeV. Jet substructure is evaluated using charged-particle tracks, and the overall level of jet suppression is quantified using the jet nuclear modification factor (RAA). The jet RAA is measured as a function of jet pT, the charged kt splitting scale (d12), and the angular separation (ΔR12) of two leading sub-jets. The jet RAA gradually decreases with increasing d12, implying significantly stronger suppression of large-radius jets with larger kt splitting scale. The jet RAA gradually decreases for ΔR12 in the range 0.01−0.2 and then remains consistent with a constant for ΔR12 ≳ 0.2. The observed significant dependence of jet suppression on the jet substructure will provide new insights into its role in the quenching process.

Keywords
  • Jet quenching
  • Quark-gluon plasma
  • Relativistic heavy-ion collisions
  • Jets & heavy flavor physics
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ATLAS Collaboration. Measurement of substructure-dependent suppression of large-radius jets with charged particles in Pb+Pb collisions with ATLAS. In: Physics letters. B, 2025, vol. 871, n° 139929, p. 17. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139929
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