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Title
Measurement of quark- and gluon-like jet fractions using jet charge in PbPb and pp collisions at 5.02 TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
The momentum-weighted sum of the electric charges of particles inside a jet, known as jet charge, is sensitive to the electric charge of the particle initiating the parton shower. This paper presents jet charge distributions in root sNN = 5.02 TeV lead-lead (PbPb) and proton-proton (pp) collisions recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC. These data correspond to integrated luminosities of 404 mu b(-1)and 27.4 pb(-1)for PbPb and pp collisions, respectively. Leveraging the sensitivity of the jet charge to fundamental differences in the electric charges of quarks and gluons, the jet charge distributions from simulated events are used as templates to extract the quark- and gluon-like jet fractions from data. The modification of these jet fractions is examined by comparing pp and PbPb data as a function of the overlap of the colliding Pb nuclei (centrality). This measurement tests the color charge dependence of jet energy loss due to interactions with the quark-gluon plasma. No significant modification between different centrality classes and with respect to pp results is observed in the extracted quark- and gluon-like jet fractions.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of high energy physics. - Bristol
Publication
Bristol : 2020
ISSN
1126-6708
1029-8479 [online]
DOI
10.1007/JHEP07(2020)115
Volume/pages
7 (2020) , 42 p.
Article Reference
115
ISI
000550237400001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Publication type
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 12.12.2024
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