Measurement of in-medium jet modification using direct photon+jet and $\pi^{0}$+jet correlations in $p+p$ and central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 200$ GeV

Author:

STAR Collaboration

Keyword:

Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

journal:

date:

2023-08-30 16:00:00

Abstract

The STAR Collaboration presents measurements of the semi-inclusive distribution of charged-particle jets recoiling from energetic direct-photon $\gamma_{\rm dir}$ and neutral-pion ($\pi^{0}$) triggers in $p+p$ and central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 200$ GeV over a broad kinematic range, for jet resolution parameters $R=0.2$ and 0.5. Medium-induced jet yield suppression is observed to be larger for $R=0.2$ than for 0.5, reflecting the angular range of jet energy redistribution due to quenching. The magnitude of suppression is similar for $\gamma_{\rm dir}$- and $\pi^{0}$-triggered data, which constrains the color-charge and path-length dependence of jet quenching. Theoretical model calculations incorporating jet quenching do not fully describe the measurements.

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