Measurement of dijet kT in p–Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02TeV

Abstract

A measurement of dijet correlations in p–Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02TeVwith the ALICE detector is presented. Jets are reconstructed from charged particles measured in the central tracking detectors and neutral energy deposited in the electromagnetic calorimeter. The transverse momentum of the full jet (clustered from charged and neutral constituents) and charged jet (clustered from charged particles only) is corrected event-by-event for the contribution of the underlying event, while corrections for underlying event fluctuations and finite detector resolution are applied on an inclusive basis. A projection of the dijet transverse momentum, kTy=pch+neT,jetsin( ϕdijet)with ϕdijetthe azimuthal angle between a full and charged jet and pch+neT,jetthe transverse momentum of the full jet, is used to study nuclear matter effects in p–Pb collisions. This observable is sensitive to the acoplanarity of dijet production and its potential modificationin p–Pb collisions with respect to pp collisions. Measurements of the dijet kTyas a function of the transverse momentum of the full and recoil charged jet, and the event multiplicity are presented. No significant modification of kTydue to nuclear matter effects in p–Pb collisions with respect to the event multiplicity or a PYTHIA8 reference is observed.