Measurements of photo-nuclear jet production in Pb plus Pb collisions with ATLAS
- NázevTitle
- Measurements of photo-nuclear jet production in Pb plus Pb collisions with ATLASMeasurements of photo-nuclear jet production in Pb plus Pb collisions with ATLAS
- Druh výsledkuResult type
- Článek v časopiseJournal article
- AutořiAuthors
- A. Angerami, M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, B. Ali, K. Augsten, D. Caforio, P. Gallus, M. Havránek, Z. Hubáček, M. Myška, S. Pospíšil, V. Šimák, T. Slavíček, K. Smolek, M. Solar, A. Sopczak, M. Suk, V. Vacek, M. Šuta, P. Vokáč, V. Vrba
- DOIDOI
- 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.06.041
- Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
- Nuclear Physics A. 2017, 967 277-280. ISSN 0375-9474.
- RokYear
- 2017
- JazykLanguage
- eng
- WoSWoS
- 000413384100037
- RIVRIV
- RIV/68407700:21220/17:00319475!RIV18-MSM-21220___
- ProjektProject
- Získávání nových poznatků o mikrosvětě v infrastruktuře CERNAcquiring new pieces of knowledge about micro-world in CERN research infrastructure
AbstraktAbstract
Ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions provide a unique opportunity to study the parton distributions in the colliding nuclei via the measurement of photo-nuclear jet production. An analysis of jet production in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at root S-NN = 5.02 TeV performed using data collected with the ATLAS detector in 2015 is described. The data set corresponds to a total Pb+Pb integrated luminosity of 0.38 nb(-1). The ultra-peripheral collisions are selected using a combination of forward neutron and rapidity gap requirements. The cross-sections, not unfolded for detector response, are compared to results from PYTHIA Monte Carlo simulations re-weighted to match a photon spectrum obtained from the STARLIGHT model. Qualitative agreement between data and these simulations is observed over a broad kinematic range suggesting that using these collisions to measure nuclear parton distributions is experimentally realisable.
Ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions provide a unique opportunity to study the parton distributions in the colliding nuclei via the measurement of photo-nuclear jet production. An analysis of jet production in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at root S-NN = 5.02 TeV performed using data collected with the ATLAS detector in 2015 is described. The data set corresponds to a total Pb+Pb integrated luminosity of 0.38 nb(-1). The ultra-peripheral collisions are selected using a combination of forward neutron and rapidity gap requirements. The cross-sections, not unfolded for detector response, are compared to results from PYTHIA Monte Carlo simulations re-weighted to match a photon spectrum obtained from the STARLIGHT model. Qualitative agreement between data and these simulations is observed over a broad kinematic range suggesting that using these collisions to measure nuclear parton distributions is experimentally realisable.