Abstract
The transverse momentum balance of pairs of back-to-back b quark jets in PbPb and pp collisions recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC is reported. The center-of-mass energy in both collision systems is 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair. Compared to the pp collision baseline, b quark jets have a larger imbalance in the most central PbPb collisions, as expected from the jet quenching effect. The data are also compared to the corresponding measurement with inclusive dijets. In the most central collisions, the imbalance of b quark dijets is comparable to that of inclusive dijets.
Highlights
Corresponding b hadron may be identified, for example, by the presence of a soft lepton or a displaced vertex inside the jet
This paper presents the first meas√urement of the pmTax spectrum: 1 (pT) balance of b jet pairs (“b dijets”) in PbPb, using collisions recorded at sNN = 5.02 TeV
The data are compared with simulations performed with pythia 6, which was found to give an adequate description of the dijet balance for inclusive jets
Summary
The central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconducting solenoid of 6 m internal diameter, providing a magnetic field of 3.8 T. Within the solenoid volume are a silicon pixel and strip tracker, a lead tungstate crystal electromagnetic calorimeter, and a brass and scintillator hadron calorimeter, each composed of a barrel and two endcap sections. Forward calorimeters extend the pseudorapidity coverage provided by the barrel and endcap detectors over the range of about 3 < η < 5. Events of interest are selected using a two-tiered trigger system [11]. The first level, composed of custom hardware processors, uses information from the calorimeters and muon detectors. The second level, known as the high-level trigger, consists of a farm of processors running a version of the full event reconstruction software optimized for fast processing
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