Friday, August 31, 2012

1208.6218 (Krisztian Krajczar et al.)

Measurement of charged particle R_AA at high pT in PbPb collisions at
sqrt(sNN)=2.76 TeV with CMS
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Krisztian Krajczar, for the CMS Collaboration
Charged particle transverse momentum (pT) spectra have been measured by CMS for pp and PbPb collisions at the same sqrt(sNN)=2.76 TeV collision energy per nucleon pairs. Calorimeter-based jet triggers are employed to enhance the statistical reach of the high-pT measurements. The nuclear modification factor (R_AA) is obtained in bins of collision centrality for the PbPb data sample dividing by the measured pp reference spectrum. In the range pT = 5-10 GeV/c, the charged particle yield in the most central PbPb collisions is suppressed by up to a factor of 7. At higher pT, this suppression is significantly reduced, approaching a factor of 2 for particles with pT = 40-100 GeV/c.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6218

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