Probing the quark-gluon plasma at the LHC with Z0-tagged jets in CMS

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作者
Mironov, Camelia [1 ]
Castro, Maria [1 ]
Constantin, Paul [1 ]
Kunde, Gerd J. [1 ]
Vogt, Ramona [2 ,3 ,4 ]
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[1] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[2] Laurence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[4] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS E | 2007年 / 16卷 / 7-8期
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10.1142/S0218301307007283
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O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
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摘要
An important tool in quark-gluon plasma studies at RHIC has been the measurement of dijets investigated via leading hadron correlations. With much higher rates for hard processes at the Large Hadron Collider, studies of Z(0)-tagged jets become possible. A clear experimental signature is provided by the measurement of muon pairs from the Z(0) decays, for which CMS is an ideally suited detector. Instead of measuring back-to-back correlations of two strongly interacting particles, one side is replaced by an electromagnetic probe which propagates through the plasma undisturbed and provides a measurement of the energy of the initial hard scattering. We propose to use lepton-pair tagged jets to study medium-induced partonic energy loss and to measure in-medium parton fragmentation functions. The lepton pairs from semileptonic decays of heavy meson pairs (BB and DD) are a background source for the tagged dilepton-jet signal. We present the calculated signal rates (using PYTHIA) and background rates (using HVQMNR). We also discuss strategies for maximizing the signal-to-background ratio.
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