Characterization of jets in heavy ion collisions using photons at the LHC with the CMS detector

Using the CMS detector at the LHC, a quantitative study of jet energy loss and angular deflection inside the high energy-density medium formed in PbPb collisions is made. Photons are used to measure the initial state of a color-charged probe while jet reconstruction is used to measure the final state. Significant loss of energy to the medium as a function of initial parton momentum is observed, while no significant angular deflection is found.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2017

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• Barbieri, Richard Alexander

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Boleslaw Wyslouch.

• Physics.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112080

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/112080