2024/03/20 by T. Pani, Pani, Tanmay · 4 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques #Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2403.13921
openalex publication_date 2024/03/20 · openalex created_date 2024/03/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Jets are produced in early stages of heavy-ion collisions and undergo modified showering in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium relative to a vacuum case. These modifications can be measured using observables like jet momentum profile and generalized angularities to study the details of jet-medium interactions. Jet momentum profile (ρ(r)) encodes radially differential information about jet broadening and has shown migration of charged energy towards the jet periphery in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC. Measurements of generalized angularities (girth g and momentum dispersion pTD) and LeSub (difference between leading and subleading constituents) from Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC show harder, or more quark-like jet fragmentation, in the presence of the medium. Measuring these distributions in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC will help us further characterize the jet-medium interactions in a phase-space region complimentary to that of the LHC. In this contribution, we present the first measurements of fully corrected g, pTD and LeSub observables using hard-core jets in Au+Au collisions at √s\rm NN=200 GeV, collected by the STAR experiment at RHIC.