By using the ATLAS detector, observations have been made of a centrality-dependent dijet asymmetry in the collisions of lead ions at the Large Hadron Collider. In a sample of lead-lead events with a per-nucleon center of mass energy of 2.76 TeV, selected with a minimum bias trigger, jets are reconstructed in fine-grained, longitudinally segmented electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters. The transverse energies of dijets in opposite hemispheres are observed to become systematically more unbalanced with increasing event centrality leading to a large number of events which contain highly asymmetric dijets. This is the first observation of an enhancement of events with such large dijet asymmetries, not observed in proton-proton collisions, which may point to an interpretation in terms of strong jet energy loss in a hot, dense medium.

G. AAD, E. ABAT, B. ABBOTT, J. ABDALLAH, A.A. ABDELALIM, A. ABDESSELAM, et al. (2010). Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at √sNN=2.76  TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 105, 252303-1-252303-18 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.252303].

Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at √sNN=2.76  TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

BERTIN, ANTONIO;BINDI, MARCELLO;CAFORIO, DAVIDE;DE CASTRO, STEFANO;DI SIPIO, RICCARDO;FABBRI, LAURA;MASSA, IGNAZIO GIACOMO;PICCININI, MAURIZIO;RINALDI, LORENZO;SBRIZZI, ANTONIO;SEMPRINI CESARI, NICOLA;VILLA, MAURO;VITALE, ANTONIO;I. VIVARELLI;ZOCCOLI, ANTONIO;
2010

Abstract

By using the ATLAS detector, observations have been made of a centrality-dependent dijet asymmetry in the collisions of lead ions at the Large Hadron Collider. In a sample of lead-lead events with a per-nucleon center of mass energy of 2.76 TeV, selected with a minimum bias trigger, jets are reconstructed in fine-grained, longitudinally segmented electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters. The transverse energies of dijets in opposite hemispheres are observed to become systematically more unbalanced with increasing event centrality leading to a large number of events which contain highly asymmetric dijets. This is the first observation of an enhancement of events with such large dijet asymmetries, not observed in proton-proton collisions, which may point to an interpretation in terms of strong jet energy loss in a hot, dense medium.
2010
G. AAD, E. ABAT, B. ABBOTT, J. ABDALLAH, A.A. ABDELALIM, A. ABDESSELAM, et al. (2010). Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at √sNN=2.76  TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 105, 252303-1-252303-18 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.252303].
G. AAD; E. ABAT; B. ABBOTT; J. ABDALLAH; A.A. ABDELALIM; A. ABDESSELAM; O. ABDINOV; B. ABI; M. ABOLINS; H. ABRAMOWICZ; H. ABREU; E. ACERBI; B.S. ACHAR...espandi
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