Measurement of jet track functions in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139680

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Measurement of jet track functions in $pp$ collisions at $s = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

arXiv:2502.02062 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139680

Abstract

Measurements of jet substructure are key to probing the energy frontier at colliders, and many of them use track-based observables which take advantage of the angular precision of tracking detectors. Theoretical calculations of track-based observables require `track functions', which characterize the transverse momentum fraction $r_{q}$ carried by charged hadrons from a fragmenting quark or gluon. This letter presents a direct measurement of $r_{q}$ distributions in dijet events from the 140 fb $^{- 1}$ of proton--proton collisions at $s = 13$ TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector. The data are corrected for detector effects using machine-learning methods. The scale evolution of the moments of the $r_{q}$ distribution is sensitive to non-linear renormalization group evolution equations of QCD, and is compared with analytic predictions. When incorporated into future theoretical calculations, these results will enable a precision program of theory-data comparison for track-based jet substructure observables.

36 pages in total, author list starting page 19, 6 figures, published in Physics Letters B. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2022-05/

Measurement of jet track functions in pp collisions at s​=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Measurement of jet track functions in $pp$ collisions at $s = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector