Quark Matter 2012

12-18 August 2012
US/Eastern timezone

Measurements of charged particle jet properties in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV using ALICE at the LHC

16 Aug 2012, 16:00
2h

Poster Jets

Speaker

Sidharth Kumar Prasad (Wayne State University (US))

Description

We present results of a study of charged particle jet properties in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV using the ALICE detector. Jets are reconstructed using charged tracks at mid-rapidity with the anti-$\rm k_{t}$ [1] jet finding algorithm from FastJet. We will discuss the transverse momentum dependence of three jet properties: charged particle multiplicity, jet size, and radial distribution of transverse momentum about the jet direction for jets in the $\rm p_{t}$ range from 20 to 100 GeV/c. The results are compared with available model predictions. These measurements in $pp$ collisions will form the baseline for similar measurements in the more complex environment of A+A collisions. References [1] M. Cacciari and P. Salam, arXiv:0802.1189v1[hep-ph], 2008.

Primary author

Collaboration ALICE (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

Co-author

Sidharth Kumar Prasad (Wayne State University (US))

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