# Quark Matter 2012

12-18 August 2012
US/Eastern timezone

## Inclusive jet and charged hadron nuclear modification factors in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV with CMS

14 Aug 2012, 17:25
20m

Oral Presentation Jets

### Speaker

Marguerite Belt Tonjes (University of Maryland (US))

### Description

Measurements of charged hadron and inclusive jet transverse momentum (pT) spectra in pp and PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV with the CMS detector will be reported. These measurements make use of the high-statistics jet-triggered data recorded in 2011, including the total available PbPb luminosity of 150/ub. Charged particles are reconstructed using an iterative algorithm and spurious high-pT tracks are suppressed by requiring appropriate energy deposits in the calorimeter system. Jets are reconstructed with the anti-kT algorithm, using combined information from tracking and calorimetry. The charged particle and jet transverse momentum distributions are measured in the pseudorapidity range of |eta|<1 and |eta| < 1.6, and in pT up to 100 GeV/c, and from 100 to 300 GeV/c, respectively. The nuclear modification factors, RAAs, for charged hadrons and jets are presented as a function of pT and collision centrality. In the range pT = 5-10 GeV/c the charged hadron production in PbPb collisions is suppressed by up to a factor of seven, compared to the pp yield scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions. The charged hadron RAA increases at higher pT and approaches a value of approximately 0.5 in the range pT = 40-100 GeV/c.

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