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Kinematic bias on centrality selection of jet events in pPb collisions at the LHC

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
dc.contributor Gulhan, Doga Can
dc.creator Armesto, Nestor
dc.creator Gulhan, Doga Can
dc.creator Milhano, Jose Guilherme
dc.date 2015-08-24T17:39:08Z
dc.date 2015-08-24T17:39:08Z
dc.date 2015-06
dc.date 2015-06
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:12:06Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:12:06Z
dc.identifier 03702693
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98211
dc.identifier Armesto, Nestor, Doga Can Gulhan, and Jose Guilherme Milhano. “Kinematic Bias on Centrality Selection of Jet Events in pPb Collisions at the LHC.” Physics Letters B 747 (July 2015): 441–445.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9236-6621
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/279133
dc.description Centrality selection has been observed to have a large effect on jet observables in pPb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, stronger than that predicted by the nuclear modification of parton densities. We study to which extent simple considerations of energy–momentum conservation which link the hard process with the underlying event that provides the centrality estimator, affect jets observables in such collisions. We develop a simplistic approach that considers first the production of jets in a pp collision as described by PYTHIA. From each pp collision, the value of the energy of the parton from the proton participating in the hard scattering is extracted. Then, the underlying event is generated simulating a pPb collision through HIJING, but with the energy of the proton decreased according to the value extracted in the previous step, and both collisions are added. This model is able to capture the bulk of the centrality effect for central to semicentral collisions, for the two available sets of data: dijets from the CMS Collaboration and single jets from the ATLAS Collaboration. As expected, the model fails for peripheral collisions where very few nucleons from Pb participate.
dc.description United States. Dept. of Energy (Cooperative Research Agreement DE-SC0011088)
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.032
dc.relation Physics Letters B
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source Elsevier
dc.title Kinematic bias on centrality selection of jet events in pPb collisions at the LHC
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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