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T1 - Search for the jet-induced diffusion wake in the quark-gluon plasma via measurements of jet-track correlations in photon-jet events in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
AU - Ali, Hanadi
AU - Alsolami, Zainab
AU - Barton, A.E.
AU - Borissov, G.
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, E.V.
AU - Ferguson, Ruby
AU - Ferrando, James
AU - Fox, H.
AU - Hagan, Alina
AU - Henderson, R.C.W.
AU - Jones, R.W.L.
AU - Kartvelishvili, V.
AU - Love, P.A.
AU - Marshall, Emma J.
AU - Meng, L.
AU - Muenstermann, D.
AU - Ribaric, N.
AU - Sampson, Elliot
AU - Smizanska, M.
AU - Wharton, A.M.
PY - 2025/4/22
Y1 - 2025/4/22
N2 - This paper presents a measurement of jet-track correlations in photon-jet events, using 1.72 nb−1 of Pb+Pb data at sNN=5.02TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events with energetic photon-jet pairs are selected, where the photon and jet are approximately back-to-back in azimuth. The angular correlation between jets and charged-particle tracks with transverse momentum (pT) in the range 0.5–2.0 GeV in the hemisphere opposite to the jet, |Δϕ(jet,track)|>π/2, is measured as a function of their relative pseudorapidity difference, |Δη(jet,track)|. In central Pb+Pb collisions, these correlations are predicted to be sensitive to the diffusion wake in the quark-gluon plasma resulting from the lost energy of high-pT partons traversing the plasma, with a characteristic modification as a function of |Δη(jet,track)|. The correlations are examined with different selections on the jet-to-photon pT ratio to select events with different degrees of energy loss. No diffusion wake signal is observed within the current sensitivity and upper limits at 95% confidence level on the diffusion wake amplitude are reported.
AB - This paper presents a measurement of jet-track correlations in photon-jet events, using 1.72 nb−1 of Pb+Pb data at sNN=5.02TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events with energetic photon-jet pairs are selected, where the photon and jet are approximately back-to-back in azimuth. The angular correlation between jets and charged-particle tracks with transverse momentum (pT) in the range 0.5–2.0 GeV in the hemisphere opposite to the jet, |Δϕ(jet,track)|>π/2, is measured as a function of their relative pseudorapidity difference, |Δη(jet,track)|. In central Pb+Pb collisions, these correlations are predicted to be sensitive to the diffusion wake in the quark-gluon plasma resulting from the lost energy of high-pT partons traversing the plasma, with a characteristic modification as a function of |Δη(jet,track)|. The correlations are examined with different selections on the jet-to-photon pT ratio to select events with different degrees of energy loss. No diffusion wake signal is observed within the current sensitivity and upper limits at 95% confidence level on the diffusion wake amplitude are reported.
U2 - 10.1103/physrevc.111.044909
DO - 10.1103/physrevc.111.044909
M3 - Journal article
VL - 111
JO - Physical Review C
JF - Physical Review C
SN - 2469-9985
IS - 4
M1 - 044909
ER -