Speaker
Mr
Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli
(Rutgers University)
Description
The quark gluon plasma is a phase of matter produced during collisions of ultra relativistic heavy ions which the CMS detector is able to study in collisions of lead ions (PbPb). A clear signature of the QGP is the apparent suppression in the inclusive jet transverse momentum when compared with a reference proton-proton (pp) system. Dijet studies in PbPb have confirmed that the reduced yield is a result of a phenomenon called jet quenching where the jets lose energy when traversing the medium. Measurements of the nuclear modification factor and the energy flow of the quenched jets are presented using high statistics pp, pPb(proton lead) and PbPb data taken in 2011-2013 at the LHC. A new data driven method to estimate the fluctuating underlying event density based on the flow modulated forward calorimetric energy distribution is employed.
Primary author
Mr
Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli
(Rutgers University)
