Abstract

A measurement of the decorrelation of azimuthal angles between the two jets with the largest transverse momenta is presented for seven regions of leading jet transverse momentum up to 2.2,mathrm{TeV}. The analysis is based on the proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 8,mathrm{TeV} corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7,text {fb}^{-1}. The dijet azimuthal decorrelation is caused by the radiation of additional jets and probes the dynamics of multijet production. The results are compared to fixed-order predictions of perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD), and to simulations using Monte Carlo event generators that include parton showers, hadronization, and multiparton interactions. Event generators with only two outgoing high transverse momentum partons fail to describe the measurement, even when supplemented with next-to-leading-order QCD corrections and parton showers. Much better agreement is achieved when at least three outgoing partons are complemented through either next-to-leading-order predictions or parton showers. This observation emphasizes the need to improve predictions for multijet production.

Highlights

  • Hadronic jets with large transverse momenta pT are produced in high-energy proton-proton collisions when two partons interact with high momentum transfer via the strong force

  • This paper reports the measurement of the normalized dijet differential cross section as a function of the dijet azimuthal angular separation, 1 dσdijet, σdijet d φdijet for seven regions of the leading jet pT, pTmax, within a rapidity region of |y| < 2.5

  • Comparisons are made to fixed-order predictions up to NLO for 3-jet production, and to NLO and leading order (LO) dijet as well as to treelevel multijet production, each matched with parton showers and complemented with multiparton interactions and hadronization

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Summary

Introduction

Hadronic jets with large transverse momenta pT are produced in high-energy proton-proton collisions when two partons interact with high momentum transfer via the strong force. At leading order (LO) in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD), two final-state partons are produced back-to-back in the transverse plane. For this case, the azimuthal angular separation between the two leading pT jets in the transverse plane, φdijet = |φjet1 − φjet2|, equals π. This paper reports the measurement of the normalized dijet differential cross section as a function of the dijet azimuthal angular separation,. Comparisons are made to fixed-order predictions up to NLO for 3-jet production, and to NLO and LO dijet as well as to treelevel multijet production, each matched with parton showers and complemented with multiparton interactions and hadronization.

The CMS detector
Event reconstruction and selection
Measurement of the dijet cross section differential in φdijet
Predictions from fixed-order calculations in pQCD
Findings
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