Abstract
Dijet production has been measured in $$\mathrm {p}\mathrm {Pb}$$ collisions at a nucleon–nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 5.02 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ . A data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 $${{\,\text {nb}^{{-1}}}} $$ was collected using the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The dijet transverse momentum balance, azimuthal angle correlations, and pseudorapidity distributions are studied as a function of the transverse energy in the forward calorimeters ( $$E_\mathrm {T}^{4<|\eta |<\mathrm {5.2}} $$ ). For $$\mathrm {p}\mathrm {Pb}$$ collisions, the dijet transverse momentum ratio and the width of the distribution of dijet azimuthal angle difference are comparable to the same quantities obtained from a simulated $$\mathrm {p}\mathrm {p}$$ reference and insensitive to $$E_\mathrm {T}^{4<|\eta |<\mathrm {5.2}} $$ . In contrast, the mean value of the dijet pseudorapidity is found to change monotonically with increasing $$E_\mathrm {T}^{4<|\eta |<\mathrm {5.2}} $$ , indicating a correlation between the energy emitted at large pseudorapidity and the longitudinal motion of the dijet frame. The pseudorapidity distribution of the dijet system in minimum bias $$\mathrm {p}\mathrm {Pb}$$ collisions is compared with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD predictions obtained from both nucleon and nuclear parton distribution functions, and the data more closely match the latter.
Highlights
Relativistic heavy ion collisions allow to study the fundamental theory of strong interactions—quantum chromodynamics (QCD)—under extreme conditions of temperature and energy density
The dijet pseudorapidity distributions in pPb collisions, which are sensitive to a possible modification of the parton distribution function of the
The residual difference in the dijet transverse momentum ratio between data and Monte Carlo (MC) simulation can be attributed to a difference in the jet energy resolution, which is better in the MC simulation by about ∼1–2 % compared to the data [36]
Summary
Relativistic heavy ion collisions allow to study the fundamental theory of strong interactions—quantum chromodynamics (QCD)—under extreme conditions of temperature and energy density. For head-on collisions, a large broadening of the dijet transverse momentum ratio ( pT,2/ pT,1) and a decrease in its mean is observed where, as is the case for all the dijet observables in the following discussion, the subscripts 1 and 2 in the kinematical quantities refer to the leading and subleading jets (the two highest- pT jets), respectively. This observation is consistent with theoretical calculations that involve differential energy loss of back-to-back hard-scattered partons as they traverse the medium [18,19,20]. This analysis is performed using events required to have a dijet with a leading jet pT,1 > 120 GeV/c, a subleading jet pT,2 > 30 GeV/c, and φ1,2 > 2π/3
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