Abstract
The production of charm jets in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of \( \sqrt{s}=7 \) TeV was measured with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is based on a data sample corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 6.23 nb−1, collected using a minimum-bias trigger. Charm jets are identified by the presence of a D0 meson among their constituents. The D0 mesons are reconstructed from their hadronic decay D0 →K−π+. The D0-meson tagged jets are reconstructed using tracks of charged particles (track-based jets) with the anti-kT algorithm in the jet transverse momentum range \( 5<{p}_{{\mathrm{T}}_{,\mathrm{jet}}}^{\mathrm{ch}} \)< 30 GeV/c and pseudorapidity |ηjet| < 0.5. The fraction of charged jets containing a D0-meson increases with \( {p}_{{\mathrm{T}}_{,\mathrm{jet}}}^{\mathrm{ch}} \) from 0.042 ± 0.004 (stat) ± 0.006 (syst) to 0.080 ± 0.009 (stat) ± 0.008 (syst). The distribution of D0-meson tagged jets as a function of the jet momentum fraction carried by the D0 meson in the direction of the jet axis \( \left({z}_{\parallel}^{\mathrm{ch}}\right) \) is reported for two ranges of jet transverse momenta, \( 5<{p}_{{\mathrm{T}}_{,\mathrm{jet}}}^{\mathrm{ch}} \)< 15 GeV/c and \( 15<{p}_{{\mathrm{T}}_{,\mathrm{jet}}}^{\mathrm{ch}} \)< 30 GeV/c in the intervals \( 0.2<{z}_{\Big\Vert}^{\mathrm{ch}}<1.0 \) and \( 0.4<{z}_{\Big\Vert}^{\mathrm{ch}}<1.0 \), respectively. The data are compared with results from Monte Carlo event generators (PYTHIA 6, PYTHIA 8 and Herwig 7) and with a Next-to-Leading-Order perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics calculation, obtained with the POWHEG method and interfaced with PYTHIA 6 for the generation of the parton shower, fragmentation, hadronisation and underlying event.

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