Direct jet reconstruction in p + p and Cu + Cu at PHENIX
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Direct jet reconstruction in p + p and Cu + Cu at PHENIX

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https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3399
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Abstract

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider collides heavy nuclei at ultrarelativistic energies, creating a strongly interacting, partonic medium that is opaque to the passage of high energy quarks and gluons. Direct jet reconstruction applied to these collision systems provides a crucial constraint on the mechanism for in-medium parton energy loss and jet-medium interactions. However, traditional jet reconstruction algorithm operating in the large soft background at RHIC give rise to fake jets well above the intrinsic production rate of high-pT partons, impeding the detection of the low cross section jet signal at RHIC energies. We developed a new jet reconstruction algorithm that uses a Gaussian filter to locate and reconstruct the jet energy. This algorithm is combined with a fake jet rejection scheme that provides efficient jet reconstruction with acceptable fake rate in a background environment up to the central Au + Au collision at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. We present results of its application in p + p and Cu + Cu collisions using data from the PHENIX detector, namely p + p cross section, Cu + Cu jet yields, the Cu + Cu nuclear modification factor, and Cu + Cu jet-jet azimuthal correlation.

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