Jet Analysis in Heavy Ion Collisions in CMS

Abstract

At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, jets have been a useful tool to probe the properties of the hot, dense matter created. At the Large Hadron Collider, collisions of Pb+Pb at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.5 TeV will provide a large cross section of jets at high $E_T$ above the minimum bias heavy ion background. Simulations of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment's capability to measure jets in heavy ion collisions are presented. In particular, $\gamma$-jet measurements can estimate the amount of energy lost by a jet interacting strongly with the medium, since the tagged photon passes through unaffected.

Proceedings of a parallel talk at the 34th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Philadelphia, 2008 (ICHEP08)

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• Photon-tagged jet measurements in Pb+Pb collisions with the CMS detector
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• Fast simulation of flow effects in central and semi-central heavy ion collisions at LHC