Measurements of the Nuclear Modification Factor for Jets in Pb+Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Measurements of inclusive jet production are performed in $pp$ and Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 4.0 $\mathrm{pb}^{-1}$ and 0.14 $\mathrm{nb}^{-1}$ , respectively. The jets are identified with the anti-$k_t$ algorithm with $R=0.4$, and the spectra are measured over the kinematic range of jet transverse momentum $32 < p_{\mathrm{T}} < 500$ GeV, and absolute rapidity $|y| < 2.1$ and as a function of collision centrality. The nuclear modification factor, $R_{\mathrm{AA}}$, is evaluated and jets are found to be suppressed by approximately a factor of two in central collisions compared to $pp$ collisions. The $R_{\mathrm{AA}}$ shows a slight increase with $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ and no significant variation with rapidity.
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Figure 05
The per event jet yield in Pb+Pb collisions, multiplied by 1/ 〈 T
AA 〉 , shown as a function of p
T (scaled by successive powers of 10
2) for jets in the range |y| < 2.1 for various centrality bins. The statistical and systematic uncertainties are indicated by the error bars and shaded bands respectively. Each spectrum is scaled by an overall multiplicative factor for presentation purposes and the dashed lines represent the pp jet cross section for the same rapidity interval scaled by the same factor. The horizontal position of the markers indicates the center of the p
T bin.
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Figure 06
The per event jet yield in Pb+Pb collisions, multiplied by 1/ 〈 T
AA 〉 , shown as a function of p
T (scaled by successive powers of 10
2) for jets in the range |y| < 0.3 for various centrality bins. The statistical and systematic uncertainties are indicated by the error bars and shaded bands respectively. Each spectrum is scaled by an overall multiplicative factor for presentation purposes and the dashed lines represent the pp jet cross section for the same rapidity interval scaled by the same factor. The horizontal position of the markers indicates the center of the p
T bin.
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Figure 07
The per event jet yield in Pb+Pb collisions, multiplied by 1/ 〈 T
AA 〉 , shown as a function of p
T (scaled by successive powers of 10
2) for jets in the range 0.3 < |y| < 0.8 for various centrality bins. The statistical and systematic uncertainties are indicated by the error bars and shaded bands respectively. Each spectrum is scaled by an overall multiplicative factor for presentation purposes and the dashed lines represent the pp jet cross section for the same rapidity interval scaled by the same factor. The horizontal position of the markers indicates the center of the p
T bin.
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Figure 08
The per event jet yield in Pb+Pb collisions, multiplied by 1/ 〈 T
AA 〉 , shown as a function of p
T (scaled by successive powers of 10
2) for jets in the range 0.8 < |y| < 1.2 for various centrality bins. The statistical and systematic uncertainties are indicated by the error bars and shaded bands respectively. Each spectrum is scaled by an overall multiplicative factor for presentation purposes and the dashed lines represent the pp jet cross section for the same rapidity interval scaled by the same factor.
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Figure 09
The per event jet yield in Pb+Pb collisions, multiplied by 1/ 〈 T
AA 〉 , shown as a function of p
T (scaled by successive powers of 10
2) for jets in the range 1.2 < |y| < 2.1 for various centrality bins. The statistical and systematic uncertainties are indicated by the error bars and shaded bands respectively. Each spectrum is scaled by an overall multiplicative factor for presentation purposes and the dashed lines represent the pp jet cross section for the same rapidity interval scaled by the same factor. The horizontal position of the markers indicates the center of the p
T bin.
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Figure 10
Jet R
AA as a function of p
T for three centrality bins: 0–1% (red circles), 10–20% (blue squares) and 40–50% (green diamonds). Each panel indicates a different range in |y|: | y | < 2.1 (top), 0.3 < | y | < 0.8 (middle) and 1.2 < |y| < 2.1 (bottom). The fractional uncertainties from the luminosity and the 〈 T
AA 〉 factors are indicated separately as a shaded box centered at one. The boxes indicate the uncertainties due to the unfolding and are partially correlated in p
T. The remaining uncertainties are fully correlated in p
T and are indicated by shaded regions. The statistical uncertainties are represented by error bars. The horizontal position of the markers indicates the center of the p
T bin.
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Figure 11
Jet R
AA as a function of p
T for three centrality bins: 1–5% (red circles), 20–30% (blue squares) and 50–60% (green diamonds). Each panel indicates a different range in |y|: | y | < 2.1 (top), 0.3 < | y | < 0.8 (middle) and 1.2 < |y| < 2.1 (bottom). The fractional uncertainties from the luminosity and the 〈 T
AA 〉 factors are indicated separately as a shaded box centered at one. The boxes indicate the uncertainties due to the unfolding and are partially correlated in p
T. The remaining uncertainties are fully correlated in p
T and are indicated by shaded regions. The statistical uncertainties are represented by error bars. The horizontal position of the markers indicates the center of the p
T bin.
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Figure 12
The R
AA as a function of 〈 N
part〉 for jets with |y| < 2.1 in different p
T ranges. All systematic errors are represented by the shaded boxes, except for the 〈 T
AA 〉 uncertainties, which are correlated from point-to-point and are indicated by the black lines. The fractional luminosity uncertainties are indicated separately by a shaded box centered at one.
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Figure 13
The R
AA as a function of 〈 N
part〉 for jets with |y| < 0.3 in different p
T ranges. All systematic errors are represented by the shaded boxes, except for the 〈 T
AA 〉 uncertainties, which are correlated from point-to-point and are indicated by the black lines. The fractional luminosity uncertainties are indicated separately by a shaded box centered at one.
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Figure 14
The R
AA as a function of 〈 N
part〉 for jets with 0.3 < y| < 0.8 in different p
T ranges. All systematic errors are represented by the shaded boxes, except for the 〈 T
AA 〉 uncertainties, which are correlated from point-to-point and are indicated by the black lines. The fractional luminosity uncertainties are indicated separately by a shaded box centered at one.
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Figure 15
The R
AA as a function of 〈 N
part〉 for jets with 0.8 < |y| < 1.2 in different p
T ranges. All systematic errors are represented by the shaded boxes, except for the 〈 T
AA 〉 uncertainties, which are correlated from point-to-point and are indicated by the black lines. The fractional luminosity uncertainties are indicated separately by a shaded box centered at one.
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Figure 16
The R
AA as a function of 〈 N
part〉 for jets with 1.2 < |y| < 2.1 in different p
T ranges. All systematic errors are represented by the shaded boxes, except for the 〈 T
AA 〉 uncertainties, which are correlated from point-to-point and are indicated by the black lines. The fractional luminosity uncertainties are indicated separately by a shaded box centered at one.
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Figure 17
The R
AA as a function of |y| for different p
T and centrality bins: 0–10% (red circles), 30–40% (blue squares) and 60–80% (green diamonds). The fractional uncertainties coming from the luminosity and the 〈 T
AA 〉 factors are indicated separately as a shaded box centered at one. The boxes indicate the uncertainties due to the unfolding and are uncorrelated in |y|. The remaining uncertainties are fully correlated in |y| and are indicated by the shaded regions. The statistical uncertainties are represented by error bars.
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Figure 18
The R
AA as a function of |y| for different p
T and centrality bins: 0–1% (red circles), 10–20% (blue squares) and 40–50% (green diamonds). The fractional uncertainties coming from the luminosity and the 〈 T
AA 〉 factors are indicated separately as a shaded box centered at one. The boxes indicate the uncertainties due to the unfolding and are uncorrelated in |y|. The remaining uncertainties are fully correlated in |y| and are indicated by the shaded regions. The statistical uncertainties are represented by error bars.
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Figure 19
The R
AA as a function of |y| for different p
T and centrality bins: 1–5% (red circles), 20–30% (blue squares) and 60–70% (green diamonds). The fractional uncertainties coming from the luminosity and the 〈 T
AA 〉 factors are indicated separately as a shaded box centered at one. The boxes indicate the uncertainties due to the unfolding and are uncorrelated in |y|. The remaining uncertainties are fully correlated in |y| and are indicated by the shaded regions. The statistical uncertainties are represented by error bars.
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Figure 20
The R
CP≡ R
AA0–10 / R
AA60–80 as a function of p
T for jets with |y| < 2.1. The R
CP extracted from the R
AA values presented in this measurement is compared with a previous ATLAS measurement (Phys. Lett. B 719, 220 (2013)) obtained using a smaller data sample. The statistical uncertainties are indicated by the error bars and the combined statistical and systematic uncertainties by the shaded region. No uncertainty on the 〈 T
AA 〉 is indicated.
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Figure 21
Jet R
AA as a function of p
T in the |y| < 2.1 range for the 0–10% centrality interval. The fractional luminosity and 〈 T
AA 〉 uncertainties are indicated separately as a shaded box centered at one. The boxes, bands and error bars indicate uncorrelated systematic, correlated systematic and statistical uncertainties, respectively. The data were fit to the form R
AA=a ln (p
T/ 100 GeV) + b, with the correlations in the uncertainties among the different p
T bins accounted for in the fit procedure. Values of a=0.11±0.04 and b=0.42±0.02 were obtained, and the fits, including uncertainty on a and b are indicated by the green hatched area.
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Figure 22
Jet R
AA as a function of p
T in the |y| < 2.1 range for the 0–10% centrality interval. The fractional luminosity and 〈 T
AA 〉 uncertainties are indicated separately as a shaded box centered at one. The boxes, bands and error bars indicate uncorrelated systematic, correlated systematic and statistical uncertainties, respectively. The data are compared to a theoretical calculation of the same quantity with y=0 from He, Vitev and Zhang (Phys. Lett. B 713, 224 (2012)) that uses a soft collinear effective theory formalism to include cold nuclear matter and radiative energy loss effects. The blue hatched region indicates the results of the calculation varying the value of jet-medium coupling, g
med, from 2.0 to 2.1.
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