Abstract

A measurement of the groomed jet mass in PbPb and pp collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC is presented. Jet grooming is a recursive procedure which sequentially removes soft constituents of a jet until a pair of hard subjets is found. The resulting groomed jets can be used to study modifications to the parton shower evolution in the presence of the hot and dense medium created in heavy ion collisions. Predictions of groomed jet properties from the pythia and herwig++ event generators agree with the measurements in pp collisions. When comparing the results from the most central PbPb collisions to pp data, a hint of an increase of jets with large jet mass is observed, which could originate from additional medium-induced radiation at a large angle from the jet axis. However, no modification of the groomed mass of the core of the jet is observed for all PbPb centrality classes. The PbPb results are also compared to predictions from the jewel and q-pythia event generators, which predict a large modification of the groomed mass not observed in the data.

Highlights

  • The CMS apparatus and event selectionThe central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconducting solenoid of 6 m internal diameter, providing an axial magnetic field of 3.8 T

  • The hard structure of the jet is expected to be sensitive to semihard medium-induced gluon radiation [22, 23], modifications of the initial parton splitting [24], and the medium response [25]

  • At large Mg/pjTet, herwig++ is above the Mg/pjTet spectra and pythia is below the spectra when compared to data with the (0.1, 0.0) soft drop (SD) setting, the observed difference is smaller than the systematic uncertainties in the measurement

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Summary

The CMS apparatus and event selection

The central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconducting solenoid of 6 m internal diameter, providing an axial magnetic field of 3.8 T. The transverse energy distribution is used to divide the event sample into bins of percentage of the total hadronic interaction cross section [7] In this analysis, we present the results in four event centrality classes: 0–10%, 10–30%, 30–50%, and 50–80%, with 0% being the most central collision, and four pjTet ranges: 140–160, 160–180, 180–200, and 200–300 GeV. In order to model the effect of the uncorrelated UE, the samples generated with jewel and q-pythia are embedded in a simulated thermal background with particle momenta following a MaxwellBoltzmann distribution [44] with an average pT of 1.2 GeV and an average energy density corresponding to that from events in the 0–10% centrality class in PbPb data

Jet reconstruction
Groomed jet mass
Systematic uncertainties
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