Measurement of semi-inclusive +jet and π0+jet distributions in central Au+Au collisions at GeV by the STAR experiment

γdirsNN = 200

Nihar Ranjan Sahoo, for the STAR Collaboration Shandong University, Qingdao, China

Email Id: nihar@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov The STAR Collaboration: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/presentations/

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Abstract

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§ Special High Tower trigger for π0/γ event [BEMC] § Discrimination between π0 γγ and γdir

§ By Transverse Shower Profile (TSP) method § Using Barrel Shower Maximum Detector [BSMD]

2. STAR detector setup1. Motivation

5. Summary and outlook• First γdir+jet and π0+jet measurement at RHIC within 9 < ETtrig < 15 GeV is presented in central Au+Au collisions at

center of mass energy 200 GeV• Recoil jet with jet radius 0.2 is strongly suppressed at high jet pT whereas a noticeable recovery of jet energy loss is

observed at jet radius 0.5 for both the γdir and π0 trigger cases• Recoil jet suppression is seen to be independent of ET

trig; whereas γdir+jet and π0+jet show similar level of suppression.• The measurement within 15 < ET

trig < 20 GeV for γdir+jet is ongoing

• Jet quenching is an important signature of the hot and denseQCD matter produced in heavy-ion collisions [1].

• A direct photon (γdir) produced in coincidence with a recoiljet (γdir+jet) is a good probe to study the parton energy lossin the QGP [2].

• Comparison between γdir+jet vs π0+jet provides quantitativeunderstanding of parton energy loss in the QCD medium

• Energy loss as a function of path length, colorfactor, parton energy, etc.

• Redistribution of lost energy inside themedium [Jet radius]

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3. Analysis details

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Full analysis chain:

1. Discrimination between π0/γrich-triggered events

Transverse Shower Profile method [4]

2. Recoil jets from high-tower-triggered events (SE)

Using FastJet package [3]; Recoil jet region:[π-π/4,

π+π/4]; Jet radius = 0.2 and 0.5; |ηjet| < 1-R

3. Subtraction of uncorrelated jet background in recoil region

Based on h+jet analysis[5], event-mixing technique

4. Correction for detector and heavy-ion background

fluctuations effects

5. Conversion from γrich+jet to γdir+jet [4]

Using π0+jet yield and purity of γdir

6. Major sources of systematic uncertainty

Unfolding, mixed-event normalization region, detector

effects, γdir background subtraction [contributes only to γdir+jet]

Purity of direct photon for different trigger ETtrig bins

γrich trigger events: enriched-γdir trigger events with someadmixture of photons from π0.

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References1. J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration), Nucl. Phys. A 757, 102 (2005)2. X.-N. Wang, Z. Huang, and I. Sarcevic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 231 (1996)3. M. Cacciari, G. P. Salam, and G. Soyez, Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72:18964. L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B 760 (2016) 689-6965. L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 96 (2017) no.2, 024905

We present the semi-inclusive measurement of charged jets recoiling from direct-photon and π0 triggers in central Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV center of mass energy, using a dataset with integratedluminosity 13 nb−1 recorded by the STAR experiment in 2014. The photon and π0 triggers have 9 < ETtrig < 15 GeV. Charged jets are reconstructed with the anti-kT algorithm with resolutionparameters R=0.2 and 0.5. A mixed Event technique developed previously by STAR is used to correct the recoil jet yield for uncorrelated background, enabling recoil jet measurements over a broadpT,jet range with large jet radius. We report the corrected semi-inclusive recoil jet yields for both triggers and compare them to those for p+p collisions. These measurements have different trigger bias,in terms of both the path-length distribution and quark/gluon mix of the recoil jet population, and their corrected recoil spectra are compared.

4. Results and discussion

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Caption- IAAPYTHIA as a function ofpT,jetch for γdir- (red band) and π0-trigger(blue band) recoil charged jet. Top: 9 <ETtrig< 11 GeV. Bottom: 11 < ETtrig< 15GeV. Lighter and darker bandsrepresent systematic and statisticaluncertainties, respectively. Right andleft panels represent Rjet=0.2 and 0.5,respectively.

A clear difference between recoil-jet spectra for different trigger ET: 9 < ETtrig < 11 GeV vs. 11 <

ETtrig < 15 GeV. Recoil jet pT is suppressed with respect to PYTHIA8. γdir+jet: downward arrow

represents upper limit in the yield at: pT,jetch = 11 GeV/c for 9 < ET

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Caption- γrich+jet :The reconstructed jet p T, jetreco distributions

are shown for the same event (SE) and mixed event (ME) fortwo triggers ETtrig bins: 9-11 GeV and 11-15 GeV. Left andright panels represent for Rjet =0.2 and 0.5, respectively. Lowerpanels shows the ratio between SE and normalized ME.

Recoil charged jets dominate (above ~10 GeV/c) overuncorrelated jet background from mixed events for differentETtrig bins and jet radii. A clear trigger dependence can beenseen.

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π0+jet: Recoil jet pT spectra γdir+jet: Recoil jet pT spectraCaption- Fully corrected semi-inclusive γdir trigger recoil charged jetpT, jet spectra for the above two ETtrigbins. Dashed lines are PYTHIA8expectation. Left panel (R=0.2) andRight panel (R=0.5). Systematic(lighter band) and statistical (darkerband) uncertainty. γdir+jet: Downwardarrow represents the large uncertainty.