Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2009-11-18
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
To be published in the proceedings of DPF-2009, Detroit, MI, July 2009, eConf C090726
Scientific paper
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.
Lai Yue-Shi
PHENIX collaboration for the
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