Measurement of jet quenching with semi-inclusive hadron-jet distributions in central Pb-Pb collisions at √

We report the measurement of a new observable of jet quenching in central Pb-Pb collisions at √ sNN = 2.76 TeV, based on the semi-inclusive rate of charged jets recoiling from a high transverse momentum (high-pT) charged hadron trigger. Jets are measured using collinear-safe jet reconstruction with infrared cutoff for jet constituents of 0.15 GeV, for jet resolution parameters R = 0.2, 0.4 and 0.5. Underlying event background is corrected at the event-ensemble level, without imposing bias on the jet population. Recoil jet spectra are reported in the range 20 < pch T,jet < 100 GeV. Reference distributions for pp collisions at √ s = 2.76 TeV are calculated using Monte Carlo and NLO pQCD methods, which are validated by comparing with measurements in pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV. The recoil jet yield in central Pb-Pb collisions is found to be suppressed relative to that in pp collisions. No significant medium-induced broadening of the intra-jet energy profile is observed within 0.5 radians relative to the recoil jet axis. The angular distribution of the recoil jet yield relative to the trigger axis is found to be similar in central Pb-Pb and pp collisions, with no significant medium-induced acoplanarity observed. Large-angle jet deflection, which may provide a direct probe of the nature of the quasi-particles in hot QCD matter, is explored.


Introduction
Hadronic jets are unique probes of the hot Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) matter generated in nuclear collisions at collider energies. Interactions of hard-scattered partons with colored matter may modify intra-jet structure, softening and broadening the distribution of hadronic jet fragments relative to jets generated in vacuum, and may deflect jets by large angles. These phenomena, known as jet quenching [1], can probe dynamical properties of the hot QCD medium [2] and the nature of quasi-particles in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) [3].
Jet quenching generates marked, experimentally observable effects. Measurements of inclusive distributions and correlations of high transverse momentum (high-p T ) hadrons have revealed significant yield suppression in nuclear collisions relative to vacuum [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Suppression of the inclusive yield of reconstructed jets [17][18][19][20] and enhancement in the rate of energy-imbalanced back-to-back di-jet pairs [21,22] have also been observed in nuclear collisions. A measurement of event-averaged missing p T suggests that the radiated energy induced by the interaction of an energetic parton with the medium is carried to a significant extent by soft particles at large angles relative to the jet axis [23].
The measurement of reconstructed jets over a wide range in jet energy and jet resolution parameter (R) is required for comprehensive understanding of jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions. Such measurements are challenging, however, due to the presence of complex, uncorrelated background to the jet signal, and the need to minimize biases in the selected jet population imposed by background suppression techniques. Multiple, complementary measurement approaches, differing both in instrumentation and in analysis algorithm, are therefore important to elucidate the physics of jet quenching using reconstructed jets.
In this article we present a new approach to the measurement of jet quenching, based on the semi-inclusive distribution of charged jets recoiling from a high-p T charged hadron trigger ("h-jet" coincidence) in central (0-10%) Pb-Pb collisions at √ s NN = 2.76 TeV. Jets are reconstructed using charged particle tracks with the k T [24] and anti-k T algorithms [25], with infrared cutoff for tracks p T,const > 0.15 GeV/c. Uncorrelated background to the recoil jet signal is corrected solely at the level of ensemble-averaged distributions, without eventby-event discrimination of jet signal from background, using a technique that exploits the phenomenology of jet production in QCD. The correction is carried out using an unfolding technique. This approach enables the collinear-safe measurement in heavy-ion collisions of reconstructed jets with low infrared cutoff over a wide range of jet energy and R. Recoil jet distributions, which are differential in p T,jet and in azimuthal angle relative to the trigger axis, are reported for R = 0.2, 0.4 and 0.5, over the range 20 < p ch T,jet < 100 GeV/c. Suppression of the recoil jet yield due to quenching is measured by comparison to the yield in pp collisions. However, our current data for pp collisions at √ s = 2.76 TeV do not have sufficient statistical precision to provide a reference for the Pb-Pb measurements reported here. The reference distribution is therefore calculated using the PYTHIA event generator [26] and perturbative QCD (pQCD) calculations at Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) [27], which are validated by comparison with ALICE measurements of pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV. Angular broadening of the internal jet structure due to quenching is in-

Data set, offline event selection, and simulations
The ALICE detector and its performance are described in [29,30]. The Pb-Pb collision data were recorded during the 2011 LHC Pb-Pb run at √ s NN = 2.76 TeV. This analysis uses the 0-10% most-central Pb-Pb collisions selected by the online trigger based on the hit multiplicity measured in the forward V0 detectors. The online trigger had 100% efficiency for the 0-7% interval in centrality percentile, and 80% efficiency for the 8-10% interval. Events are reconstructed offline as described in ref. [13]. Charged tracks are measured in the ALICE central barrel, with acceptance |η| < 0.9 over the full azimuth. Accepted tracks are required to have 0.15 < p T < 100 GeV/c, with at least 70 Time Projection Chamber (TPC) space-points and at least 80% of the geometrically findable space-points in the TPC. To account for the azimuthally non-uniform response of the Inner Tracking System (ITS) in this dataset, two exclusive classes of tracks are used [30]: tracks with Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD) hits (70% of all tracks in central Pb-Pb collisions, and 95% in pp collisions); and tracks without SPD hits but with a primary vertex constraint. The primary vertex is required to lie within 10 cm of the nominal center of the detector along the beam axis, and within 1 cm of it in the transverse plane. After offline event selection, the Pb-Pb dataset consists of 17M events in the 0-10% centrality percentile interval.
The pp collision data used to validate PYTHIA and pQCD calculations were recorded during the 2010 low-luminosity pp run at √ s = 7 TeV, using a MB trigger. The MB trigger configuration, offline event selection, and tracking are the same as described in [31]. After event selection cuts, the pp dataset consists of 168M events. There is negligible difference in the inclusive jet cross section for events selected by the ALICE online trigger, and for a non-single diffractive event population.
Simulations of pp collisions were carried out using PYTHIA 6.425, with the Perugia 0, Perugia 2010, and Perugia 2011 tunes [32]. Instrumental effects are calculated using the Perugia 0 and Perugia 2010 tunes for pp and Pb-Pb collisions respectively, with a detailed -3 -

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detector model implemented using GEANT3 [33]. In addition, a simulation based on HI-JING [34] is used to evaluate the detector response in the high multiplicity environment of Pb-Pb collisions. Perugia 2011, which has been tuned to other LHC data, is used as an alternative to compare with the new data presented here. Simulated events, which include primary particles and the daughters of strong and electromagnetic decays but not instrumental effects or the daughters of weak decays, are denoted "particle level". Simulated events also including instrumental effects and weak decay daughters where reconstructed tracks are selected using the experimental cuts are denoted "detector level".
For central Pb-Pb collisions, tracking efficiency is 80% for p T > 1 GeV/c, decreasing to 56% at 0.15 GeV/c. Track momentum resolution is 1% at p T = 1 GeV/c and 3% at p T = 50 GeV/c. For pp collisions, tracking efficiency is 2%-3% higher than in central Pb-Pb collisions. Track momentum resolution is 1% at p T = 1 GeV/c for all reconstructed tracks; 4% at p T = 40 GeV/c for tracks with SPD hits; and 7% at p T = 40 GeV/c for tracks without SPD hits [30,31].

Jet reconstruction
Jet reconstruction for both the pp and Pb-Pb analyses is carried out using the k T [24] and anti-k T [25] algorithms applied to all accepted charged tracks. The boost-invariant p T -recombination scheme is used [24]. Jet area is calculated by the Fastjet algorithm using ghost particles with area 0.005 [35].
Charged jets are not safe in perturbation theory, because radiation carried by neutral particles is not included. However, infrared-safe calculations of charged-jet observables can be performed using non-perturbative track functions, which absorb infrared divergences and describe the energy fraction of a parton carried by charged tracks [36]. Track functions are analogous to fragmentation functions, with DGLAP-like evolution, and perturbative calculations using them are in good agreement with PYTHIA calculations [36]. Track functions can provide the basis for rigorous comparison of the charged-jet measurements reported here with both analytic and Monte Carlo QCD calculations.
For the Pb-Pb analysis, adjustment of jet energy for the presence of large background utilizes the FastJet procedure [37], in which jet reconstruction is carried out twice for each event. The first pass applies the k T algorithm with R = 0.4 to estimate ρ, the density of jet-like transverse-momentum due to background, which is defined as where index i runs over all jet candidates in an event, and p raw,i T,jet and A i jet are the transverse momentum and area of the i th reconstructed jet. Further details are presented in [38]. The central data points in this analysis are determined by excluding the two jets with highest p raw,i T,jet from calculation of the median, with a variant used to study systematic sensitivity to this choice.
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is corrected according to [37], where p raw,i T,jet and A i jet are measured for the i th jet in an event, and ρ is a scalar value common to all jets in each event, but varies from event to event.
A cut on jet area is applied to suppress combinatorial jets while preserving high efficiency for true hard jets [39,40]. Jet candidates are rejected if A i jet < 0.07 for R = 0.2; A i jet < 0.4 for R = 0.4; and A i jet < 0.6 for R = 0.5. Similar procedures are followed for the pp data analysis. Jets are reconstructed with the anti-k T algorithm for R = 0.2, 0.4 and 0.5. Reconstructed p reco,ch T,jet is adjusted using eq. (3.2), where ρ is estimated in this case by the summed p T in two cones of radius R = 0.4, with centroids at the same η but perpendicular in azimuth to the leading jet in the event.
The instrumental jet energy resolution (JER), which characterizes the detector response relative to charged jets at the particle level, varies from 20% at p T,jet = 20 GeV/c to 25% at p T,jet = 100 GeV/c, for both Pb-Pb and pp collisions, with negligible dependence on R. The jet energy scale (JES) uncertainty, which is dominated by the uncertainty of tracking efficiency, is approximately 5% for both Pb-Pb and pp collisions, with negligible dependence on p ch T,jet and R. However, the instrumental response is significantly non-Gaussian [17] and unfolding of the full response matrix is used for corrections.

General considerations
Energetic jets that arise from high momentum transfer (high-Q 2 ) scattering of partons are readily visible in event displays of high multiplicity heavy-ion collisions [22,23]. However, accurate measurement of jet energy in such events, and unbiased measurement of jet distributions, are more difficult. Application of a jet reconstruction algorithm to high multiplicity events will cluster hadrons arising from multiple incoherent sources into each reconstructed jet, resulting in significant smearing of the true hard jet energy distribution. It will also generate a large population of "combinatorial" background jets comprising solely hadrons generated by soft production processes (Q 2 below a few GeV 2 ), which cannot be identified as hard jets with smeared energy.
Current heavy-ion jet analyses select the hard jet population on a jet-by-jet basis by several different approaches: removal of an estimated background component of transverse energy prior to jet reconstruction [41]; or imposition of a fragmentation bias requiring a cluster of high-p T tracks or a single high-p T track in the jet, and imposition of a jet p T threshold [17,19,20,42]. These rejection techniques may bias towards certain fragmentation patterns in the accepted hard jet population.

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This analysis takes a different approach, in which corrections for background and instrumental effects are applied solely at the level of ensemble-averaged distributions, without rejection of individual jet candidates or removal of event components. The analysis is based on the semi-inclusive differential distribution of charged jets recoiling from a high-p T trigger hadron, with the trigger hadron selected within a limited p T,trig interval (Trigger Track, or TT, class). This distribution, which is the number of jets measured in the recoil acceptance normalized by the number of trigger hadrons, is equivalent to the ratio of inclusive production cross sections, where AA denotes pp or Pb-Pb collisions, σ AA→h+X is the cross section to generate a hadron within the p T interval of the selected TT class, d 2 σ AA→h+jet+X /dp ch T,jet dη is the differential cross section for coincidence production of a hadron in the TT interval and a recoil jet, and p ch T,jet and η jet are the charged jet transverse momentum and pseudo-rapidity. Because the observable in eq. (4.1) is semi-inclusive, the selection of events containing a hard process ("hard-process selection") is based solely on the presence of a high-p T hadron trigger. In particular, there is no requirement that a jet satisfying certain criteria be found in the recoil acceptance. Rather, all jet candidates in the recoil acceptance are counted in eq. (4.1), regardless of their specific properties. Events with no hard jet candidates (however defined) falling within the acceptance are not rejected, and contribute to the normalization. This observable thereby measures the absolutely normalized rate of recoil jets observed per trigger. Correction for the contribution of uncorrelated background jets in eq. (4.1) is carried out at a later step in the analysis, as discussed below.
Other jet correlation measurements in heavy-ion collisions have been carried out, in which hard-process selection utilizes a compound condition that requires the presence of both a trigger object (jet or photon) and a recoil jet satisfying certain criteria [22,23,43]. The jet correlation distributions in these analyses are normalized per trigger-recoil pair; absolute normalization requires scaling by the inclusive trigger yield, together with selection of the recoil jet population using the semi-inclusive procedure described above. The role of normalization in the measurement of in-medium large-angle scattering is discussed in section 9.2.

Trigger hadrons and hard-process bias
The use of high-p T hadron triggers for hard-process selection in this analysis is based on the following considerations.
Hadrons with p T larger than about 5-7 GeV/c are expected to originate primarily from fragmentation of energetic jets, in both pp and Pb-Pb collisions at √ s NN = 2.76 TeV (see e.g. [44]). They provide experimentally clean triggers, without the need for correction for uncorrelated background. Selection of events by requiring the presence of a high-p T hadron biases towards events containing a high-Q 2 partonic interaction, with jets in the final state. Inclusive distributions of high-p T hadrons have been measured and calculated theoretically in both pp and heavy-ion collisions at collider energies. For pp collisions at the LHC, agreement within a factor two is found between NLO calculations and data for p T > 10 GeV/c, with the discrepancies attributable to poorly constrained gluon fragmentation functions that can be improved by fitting to LHC data [45]. For inclusive hadron production in heavy-ion collisions [5,9,13,14], the medium-induced modification and evolution of fragmentation functions have been calculated in several frameworks, showing good agreement with data ( [46,47] and references therein). Suppression of inclusive hadron production in heavy-ion collisions has been used to determine the jet transport parameterq [2].
Any hard-process selection procedure imposes bias on the accepted event population, and accurate comparison of theory calculations with such measurements requires calculation of this selection bias. In this analysis, hard-process selection uses the same cuts as those used for high-p T inclusive hadron measurements. Since inclusive hadron production is calculable in both pp and Pb-Pb collisions, the selection bias in this analysis is likewise calculable using current theoretical approaches.

Hadron-jet coincidences
There are additional considerations for interpreting hadron-triggered recoil distributions in eq. (4.1) and comparing such measurements to theoretical calculations, as follows.
The h-jet coincidence cross section in pp collisions has been calculated in a pQCD framework [27]. In this process at LO, a pair of final-state partons is generated with opposing transverse momenta, with one of the pair fragmenting into a hadron which carries momentum fraction z of the recoiling jet. Since z = p T,trig /p T,jet ≤ 1 at LO, the requirement of a high-p T,trig hadron above threshold therefore biases against coincident recoil jets with p T,jet < p T,trig , but does not impose a kinematic constraint on recoil jets with p T,jet > p T,trig .
The inclusive hadron distribution at high-p T is biased towards high-z jet fragments, due to interplay between the shape of the inclusive jet p T spectrum and the shape of the inclusive fragmentation function, with z incl ≈ 0.6 at LHC energies [48]. However, in the semi-inclusive measurement based on eq. (4.1), the trigger-normalized rate of recoil jets is measured as a function of p ch T,jet . At LO this corresponds to z = p T,trig /p T,jet , which can differ significantly from z incl [27]. For fixed p T,trig the z-bias therefore varies as a function of recoil p T,jet , with stronger bias than the inclusive case for p T,jet ≈ p T,trig , and weaker bias for p T,jet p T,trig . The z-bias has been calculated for pp collisions at √ s = 2.76 and 7 TeV using the approach of [27] and found to be similar at LO and NLO. This z-bias, which is kinematic in origin, likewise occurs in nuclear collisions in which jets experience quenching. This effect is intrinsic to any theoretical framework based on pQCD, both in-vacuum and quenched, and will be properly accounted for in such calculations.
For quenched jets in nuclear collisions, high-p T hadron selection may generate two additional, related biases. The first is a bias towards high-z fragments of jets that have lost relatively little energy in the medium [49]. The second is a geometric bias in which small energy loss corresponds to small path length in matter. In the latter case, jets generating high-p T trigger hadrons are generated predominantly on the surface of the collision region and headed outward [50][51][52][53][54][55][56], with the corresponding recoil jet population biased towards longer path length in matter than the unbiased, fully inclusive jet population. The degree to which high-p T hadron selection biases towards small energy loss of its parent jet determines the degree of similarity in the underlying distribution of high-Q 2 processes in pp and Pb-Pb collisions, for the same hadron trigger cuts. In the following, we refer to potential differences in such Q 2 distributions as being due to "trigger-jet" energy loss. Quantitative assessment of these effects can be carried out using theoretical calculations of inclusive charged hadron production.

Semi-inclusive recoil jet measurements
Trigger hadrons lie within the charged-track acceptance |η| < 0.9 and are selected in the intervals 8 < p T,trig < 9 GeV/c, denoted by TT{8,9} and referred to as the Reference TT class; and 20 < p T,trig < 50 GeV/c, denoted by TT{20,50} and referred to as the Signal TT class. Since ρ is the median energy density in an event, there must be jet candidates with energy density less than ρ, and which consequently have p reco,ch T,jet < 0. The recoil jet distribution in the region p reco,ch T,jet < 0 is seen to be largely uncorrelated with TT class in all cases, indicating that the yield in this region is dominated by combinatorial jets. In pp collisions the distribution in this region is narrow, indicating only small background density fluctuations. The predominant feature of the pp distributions is the strong dependence on TT class for p reco,ch T,jet > 0, with a harder recoil jet spectrum for higher p T,trig , as expected from the systematics of jet production in QCD. For Pb-Pb collisions the distribution in the region p reco,ch T,jet < 0 is much broader, indicating significantly larger background density fluctuations than in pp collisions. For large and positive p reco,ch T,jet , the recoil jet distribution in Pb-Pb is strongly correlated with TT class, similar to pp collisions, showing that this region has significant contribution from the true coincident recoil jet yield.
The integrals of the Pb-Pb distributions in figure 1 are 1.645 ± 0.005(stat) for TT{8,9} and 1.647 ± 0.009(stat) for TT{20,50}. This integral represents the average number of jet candidates per trigger hadron, both correlated and uncorrelated, and is seen to be consistent, within errors of a few per mil, for the two TT classes. Similar features have been observed in model calculations [57]. Since central Pb-Pb events have high multiplicity, the recoil acceptance in each event is fully populated by jet candidates. Invariance of the integral with TT class therefore indicates that the number of jet candidates per trigger hadron is due largely to geometric factors, specifically the acceptance and jet resolution parameter R. This behavior is consistent with the robustness of the anti-k T algorithm against modification of jet structure by soft particles from the underlying event [25]. Jet candidate distributions reconstructed using the anti-k T algorithm for different trigger hadron kinematics appear to differ most significantly in the shape of the distribution as a function of p ch T,jet , not in the total number of jet candidates per event.
Based on these considerations we define a new observable, ∆ recoil , which suppresses the uncorrelated jet yield in a purely data-driven way. ∆ recoil is the difference between two semi-inclusive recoil jet distributions (eq. (4.1)) for the Signal and Reference TT classes [57], The scale factor c Ref , which is within a few percent of unity, is discussed in section 5.1.

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The raw ∆ recoil distribution must be corrected for instrumental effects and for smearing of coincident recoil jet energy by fluctuations of energy density in the underlying event. After corrections, ∆ recoil represents the change in the distribution of jets recoiling in coincidence with a trigger hadron, as the trigger hadron p T changes from the Reference to Signal TT interval. While this differential coincidence observable has not been reported previously, it is nevertheless well-defined in terms of perturbative QCD.
We also extend eq. (4.2) to measure the angular distribution of recoil jet yield with respect to the axis defined by the trigger hadron momentum, in order to investigate mediuminduced acoplanarity [3,28] ("inter-jet broadening"). The azimuthal correlation between the trigger hadron and coincident recoil charged jets is measured via where the recoil acceptance for this observable is π/2 < ∆ϕ < π. Normalization to unit η is omitted from the notation for clarity. We quantify the rate of medium-induced large-angle scattering by measuring the integrated recoil yield at large angular deflection relative to ∆ϕ = π, defined as where the lower limit of the integration is set arbitrarily to π/2. The upper limit excludes the main peak of the Φ(∆ϕ) distribution, |∆ϕ − π| < ∆ϕ thresh , in order to measure the yield in the tail of the distribution. Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) is measured as a function of ∆ϕ thresh . The distributions Φ(∆ϕ) and Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) likewise represent the change in the angular distribution of recoil jet yield, as the trigger hadron p T changes from the Reference to Signal TT interval.

Raw distributions
In order to ensure statistical independence of the recoil jet distributions for the Signal and Reference TT classes, each event is assigned randomly to one of the TT classes and is used only for its assigned TT class. The statistical reach of the analysis is optimized by assigning 80% of the events to the Signal TT subset and 20% to the Reference TT subset. This choice balances retention of the high-p reco,ch T,jet component of the Signal recoil jet distribution with statistical precision of the Reference distribution in the region p reco,ch T,jet < 0, with the latter condition required to provide accurate normalization of the combinatorial background jet distribution.
Events within each subset are then selected for further analysis if they contain at least one hadron within the p T,trig interval of their assigned TT class. If more than one hadron satisfying this criterion is found, one hadron is chosen randomly as the trigger hadron. For the Pb-Pb analysis there are 65k events with trigger hadrons in the Reference TT class and 22k in the Signal TT class. For the pp analysis there are 74k events with trigger hadrons in the Reference TT class and 5k in the Signal TT class.       Figure 2, left panels, also show the integrals of the distributions. The integrals are seen to be insensitive to TT class for a given R, with variations at the percent level or smaller, while the value of the integral depends strongly on R. These features are consistent with the geometric interpretation of the integral given in section 4.4. Table 1 shows the parameters resulting from the fit of a linear function to the ratios in the right panels of figure   T,jet in which the scale factor c Ref is determined. ∆ recoil is seen to be consistent with zero over the entire fitting range. These panels also show the close similarity of the shapes of the Signal and Reference distributions in this region. Figure 3, right panels, show ∆ recoil at positive p reco,ch T,jet , where the Signal and Reference distributions diverge. This is the ensemble-averaged distribution of the trigger-correlated differential jet yield, but with measured p reco,ch T,jet not yet corrected for instrumental effects and fluctuations of the underlying event background.

Φ(∆ϕ) and Σ (∆ϕ thresh )
The analysis of Φ(∆ϕ) (eq. (4.3)) and Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) (eq. (4.4)) is the same as that for ∆ recoil in terms of event selection, track cuts, jet reconstruction, and jet candidate selection. For this analysis we only consider jets with R = 0.4 and 40 < p reco,ch T,jet < 60 GeV/c. Figure 4, left panel, shows the distributions of Φ(∆ϕ) for TT{8,9} and TT{20,50} individually, and for TT{20,50}-TT{8,9}, illustrating the effect of the subtraction. Figure 4, right panel, shows the raw distribution of Σ (∆ϕ thresh ), likewise for TT{8,9} and TT{20,50} individually, and for TT{20,50}-TT{8,9}. Since Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) is an integral    sible. In order to compare the Pb-Pb distributions with a reference distribution for pp collisions, we therefore impose the effects of instrumental response and Pb-Pb background fluctuations on the distribution calculated by PYTHIA for pp collisions at √ s = 2.76 TeV. The instrumental response, modeled by GEANT, is dominated by tracking efficiency and momentum resolution. The effects of background fluctuations are modeled by embedding detector-level PYTHIA events into real Pb-Pb events. Recoil jets are reconstructed from these hybrid events, using the same procedures as real data analysis.

Corrections to ∆ recoil distributions
Corrections to the raw ∆ recoil distributions for underlying event fluctuations and instrumental response are carried out using unfolding methods [58,59], in which the true jet distribution T is determined from the measured distribution M using a response matrix. We denote by R tot the response matrix that incorporates all corrections, due to underlying event fluctuations and to instrumental response. R tot maps T (p part T,jet ) to M (p det T,jet ), where p part T,jet is the particle-level charged-jet p T and p det T,jet is the detector-level or reconstructed jet p T .
Precise inversion of eq. (6.1) for non-singular R tot may result in a solution with large fluctuations in central values and large variance, arising from statistical noise in M (p det T,jet ) [58]. Inversion of eq. (6.1) to obtain a physically interpretable solution is achieved via regularized unfolding, which imposes the additional constraint of smoothness on the solution.
Input to the unfolding procedure uses jets in the range 20 < p det T,jet < 100 GeV/c. The distribution in eq. (4.2) provides a natural cutoff at low p det T,jet , where the difference between -14 -

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central values of Signal and Reference distributions is smaller than the statistical error of the difference, so that imposition of a lower bound in this range is strictly speaking not required. However, in practice it was found that imposition of a lower bound at p det T,jet = 20 GeV/c, which is above the LO cutoff in terms of charged jet p det T,jet , is needed for stable unfolding. This bound was kept as low as possible, to retain as much correlated signal as possible. The upper bound is set by the requirement that the highest p det T,jet bin has at least 10 counts.
Correction for loss of jet yield in the excluded regions is carried out by applying a p part T,jet -dependent efficiency kin , which is determined using PYTHIA simulations. kin is close to unity for all R in the analysis, over most of the range 20 < p part T,jet < 100 GeV/c. Its value is kin = 50% at p part T,jet = 20 GeV/c for all R, due primarily to detector efficiency, and kin = 70% at p part T,jet = 100 GeV/c for all R, due to the effects of momentum resolution and background fluctuations. The jet finding efficiency is 95% for p part T,jet = 20 GeV/c and 100% for p part T,jet > 40 GeV/c, for all R. For the Pb-Pb analysis, the primary unfolding algorithm is an iterative procedure based on Bayes' Theorem [60], as implemented in the RooUnfold software package [61]. Regularization is imposed by requiring only small variation between successive iterations, which occurs typically after three iterations. Closure of the unfolding procedure for ∆ recoil was tested in model studies with correlated spectrum and background fluctuations similar to those of this measurement [57]. An alternative unfolding algorithm, regularized Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) [59], was used to estimate the systematic uncertainties.
Both unfolding algorithms were also used for the pp analysis. In this case, the SVD algorithm was used to determine the central values, while Bayesian unfolding is used to estimate the systematics. This was found to be the optimal approach for the more limited statistics of the pp distributions.
Both unfolding methods require initial specification of a prior distribution. For the Pb-Pb analysis, the prior is the ∆ recoil distribution for pp collisions at √ s = 2.76 TeV, calculated using PYTHIA (Perugia 10 tune). For pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV, the prior is calculated using PYTHIA (Perugia 10 tune [32]).

Correction for instrumental response
The procedures to correct the jet energy for instrumental effects are the same as those described in [17]. The dominant correction is due to tracking efficiency, with p T resolution generating the second-largest correction.
Corrections for instrumental effects are determined from simulations of pp collisions at √ s = 2.76 TeV generated by PYTHIA, together with detailed detector simulations generated using GEANT followed by event reconstruction. The lower tracking efficiency in central Pb-Pb collisions was modeled by randomly discarding additional detector-level tracks. The additional rejection factor was determined by comparing Hijing and Pythia efficiencies and corresponds to 2-3%, with weak p T dependence [20].
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Correction for background fluctuations
The adjustment of reconstructed jet energy by the estimated background density ρ · A i jet (eq. (3.2)) accounts approximately for event-wise variation in the background level, which arises from variation in multiplicity within the 0-10% centrality percentile bin [38]. The jet energy scale of the ∆ recoil distribution must still be corrected for energy smearing, due to local background energy density fluctuations relative to the median background density ρ.
Background fluctuations δp T are measured by two techniques: the Random Cone method (RC) [38], and a method in which model jets are embedded into real events [39]. The distribution of fluctuations in background energy for the RC method has RMS = 4.35 GeV/c for R = 0.2, 9.9 GeV/c for R = 0.4, and 13 GeV/c for R = 0.5. The RC method is used for the central data points, with the embedding method used to assess the systematic uncertainty.
The calculation of ρ (eq. (3.1)) requires algorithmic choices that are not unique, notably the jet reconstruction algorithm and the population of jets used for the median calculation. However, calculation of the response matrix for unfolding of background fluctuations incorporates the same set of choices. If all jet candidates are retained, without rejection based on p det T,jet , the effect of any systematic shift in JES due to ρ will be precisely counterbalanced by a shift of the same magnitude but opposite sign in the response matrix. This two-step JES correction, with event-by-event jet energy adjustment for event pedestal ρ · A i jet followed by ensemble-level unfolding of background fluctuations δp T , will consequently be independent of the specific algorithmic choices for determining ρ.
In this analysis, the definition of ρ for the first step excludes the two hardest jet candidates from the median calculation (eq. (3.1)), while in the second step only jet candidates with p det T,jet > 20 GeV/c are used for unfolding. However, this rejection cut in the second step induces an implicit dependence on the specific definition of ρ. In order to assess this effect, the analysis was repeated with an alternative definition of ρ, in which all jet candidates are included in the median calculation in the first step. No significant differences were observed in the corrected recoil jet spectra.

Cumulative response matrix
For the Pb-Pb analysis, the cumulative response matrix R tot is the product of the response matrices for instrumental response and background fluctuations. To illustrate the magnitude of corrections to ∆ recoil from unfolding the raw distributions with R tot , we calculate the converse effect by convoluting the ∆ recoil distribution for pp collisions with R tot . Figure 5 compares the particle-level ∆ recoil distribution calculated using PYTHIA for pp collisions at For the pp analysis, only the instrumental response was corrected using unfolding, i.e. R tot = R det .

Other effects
In this section we discuss other effects that do not warrant correction of the data.
Since this analysis is based on a semi-inclusive observable, with normalization provided by the number of trigger hadrons measured offline, correction for online trigger efficiency (section 2) is not required. No significant difference in measured distributions was observed for events in the 0-8% and 9-10% centrality intervals.
Tracking efficiency at high-p T is 80% (section 2), so that 20% of all trigger hadrons will not be observed. However, this tracking efficiency is uniform over the p T,trig range spanning both the Reference and Signal TT classes, so the loss in trigger statistics is unbiased in p T,trig . Since the measurements are trigger-normalized semi-inclusive distributions, the reduction in the observed trigger hadrons corresponds simply to a loss of events, and correction for this effect is not required. Section 4.3 presented considerations of trigger-jet energy loss in the interpretation of these measurements. A related but distinct effect is variation of R AA , the suppression of inclusive hadron yield in central Pb-Pb collisions, over the p T,trig -interval of the Signal TT bin [13,14]. Such a variation can generate different hard-process selection bias for the same hadron trigger cuts in pp and Pb-Pb collisions, even if trigger-jet energy loss effects in Pb-Pb are negligible. Using PYTHIA simulations, we estimate that this variation may generate an increase in ∆ recoil of 5% at p T,jet = 20 GeV/c and 15% at p T,jet = 100 GeV/c, but negligible change in the ratio of ∆ recoil in Pb-Pb with different R (see figure 10 and discussion below). Such effects will however be included in theoretical calculations which -17 -

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incorporate quenching and accurately reproduce the measured p T -dependence of inclusive hadron R AA , and we do not correct the data for them.
High-p T,trig hadron triggers above a fixed p T threshold bias the event population due to correlation with the Event plane (EP) orientation, and bias towards more-central events. Both effects will bias the underlying event density and its fluctuations in the recoil jet region. Note, however, that for the p T,trig ranges of the Signal and Reference TT classes in this analysis, the second-order EP correlation amplitude v 2 exhibits no significant variation with hadron p T (v 2 ≈ 0.01 for p T > 10 GeV/c [62,63]), and the centrality bias is also invariant. The subtraction of the two distributions in ∆ recoil and Φ(∆ϕ) thereby removes the effect of such background biases to a significant extent. Residual effects of these biases are assessed in section 7, and are included in the systematic uncertainties.
Multiple, incoherent partonic interactions (MPI) can generate both a trigger hadron and uncorrelated hard jets in the recoil acceptance, in the same Pb-Pb collision. A recent analysis of γ-jet coincidences corrected for this background using a mixed event technique [43]. Since the rate of uncorrelated hard interactions is by definition independent of p T,trig , the subtraction of the Reference from the Signal distribution in eq. (4.2) and eq. (4.3) suppresses entirely the contribution of jet candidates from all uncorrelated sources, including jets found in the recoil acceptance arising from MPI. Correction for MPI effects is therefore not required, for all observables considered in this analysis. The significant systematic uncertainties of the ∆ recoil distributions in Pb-Pb collisions are as follows: • Fit range for c Ref (table 1): variation of limits for fit generates a variation in ∆ recoil of less than 1%; • Tracking efficiency: variation of R det by changing the tracking efficiency by 5% generates a variation in corrected ∆ recoil of 4% at p ch T,jet ≈ 20 GeV/c and 15% at p ch T,jet ≈ 100 GeV/c; • Fragmentation model for instrumental response: determination of R det using PYQUEN rather than PYTHIA. PYQUEN has large-angle radiation enabled and was tuned to LHC data [64]. This gives a variation in ∆ recoil of 2% at p ch T,jet ≈ 20 GeV/c and 13% at p ch T,jet ≈ 100 GeV/c;

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• Event plane and multiplicity bias: the trigger hadron yield and background fluctuation distributions are measured differentially in bins of azimuthal angle relative to the EP. The trigger hadron yield is found to be correlated with EP orientation, indicating non-zero elliptic flow. The response matrix is then obtained by weighting the azimuth-dependent background fluctuation distribution with the azimuth-dependent trigger hadron yield. The change in corrected jet yield with and without this weighting is less than 5%. The effects of the multiplicity bias are negligible; • Background fluctuations: using embedding rather than the RC method to measure background fluctuations (section 6.2) generates differences in the corrected ∆ recoil distribution of less than 10%; • Variation in unfolding algorithm: termination of Bayesian unfolding after five rather than three iterations generates variations in ∆ recoil of ≈ 1% over most of the measured range. SVD unfolding yields ∆ recoil distributions that differ from the Bayesian-based corrected distributions by 1%; • Choice of unfolding prior: for Bayesian-based unfolding, the alternative priors are the ∆ recoil distribution for pp collisions at √ s = 2.76 TeV including a 10% or 20% relative energy shift, to model jet energy loss. For SVD unfolding, the alternative prior is the Bayesian-based unfolded distribution. The largest variation in the corrected ∆ recoil is less than 6% at all p ch T,jet ; • Spectrum binning and limits: variations of upper and lower spectrum limits generate variations in corrected ∆ recoil of less than 3% at low p ch T,jet , with negligible variation at high p ch T,jet . Variation in choice of binning generates changes in corrected ∆ recoil that are less than 4%.
The products of weak decays make negligible contribution to p ch T,jet because of the stringent track selection requirements of the analysis and the low material budget of the ITS and TPC. The systematic uncertainty of ∆ recoil due to the contribution of secondary vertex decays is less than 2%. Table 2 presents the significant systematic uncertainties for R = 0.4, at two values of p ch T,jet . Uncertainties are presented as the relative difference to the central values of the corrected ∆ recoil . We distinguish between correlated systematic uncertainties, arising from variations that generate a correlated change in the magnitude of the spectrum, and uncorrelated (or shape) uncertainties, arising from variations that preserve the integral but generate a change in the shape of the spectrum. Cumulative uncertainties are the quadratic sum of all correlated or uncorrelated uncertainties. Uncertainties for R = 0.2 and 0.5 are evaluated in a similar way.
Similar systematic uncertainties were considered for the ∆ recoil distribution in pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV as those discussed for Pb-Pb collisions. Uncertainty in tracking efficiency causes variation in ∆ recoil by 2% at p T,jet ≈ 20 GeV/c and 9% at p T,jet ≈ 60 GeV/c. The systematic uncertainty due to track momentum resolution is estimated to be 4% in the entire p T range. The shift of jet energy scale due to contamination by secondary particles and fake tracks causes a variation in ∆ recoil of less than 2%. Variations in the unfolding procedure, including change in the choice of unfolding algorithm, prior, and spectrum binning, result in ∆ recoil changes of ≈ 5%. The cumulative systematic uncertainty is given by the quadratic sum of all individual uncertainties.
• Since the yield of correlated hard jets decreases with increasing acoplanarity (i.e. increasing |∆ϕ − π|), the scale factor c Ref in this region should approach unity. To assess this effect, c Ref is varied from its nominal values in table 1 to unity. The resulting change in width of the uncorrected Φ(∆ϕ) distribution (eq. (9.1)) is 0.001 and the change in slope of the Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) ratio ( figure 12) is 0.35, which are taken as the systematic uncertainties.
• Tracking efficiency less than unity will result in jets that are reconstructed from a subset of their charged track constituents, with consequent variation of jet centroid. However, the 5% relative uncertainty of tracking efficiency generates negligible variation in the width of the Φ(∆ϕ) distribution and in the slope of the Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) ratio.
• The EP bias due to the hadron trigger, discussed in section 7.1, generates a change of 0.005 in the width of the Φ(∆ϕ) and 0.07 in the slope of the Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) ratio.

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√ s= 2.76 TeV As noted above, comparison of Pb-Pb measurements to similar distributions in pp collisions at √ s = 2.76 TeV requires calculations based on PYTHIA and NLO pQCD. In order to validate this approach, we compare PYTHIA and NLO pQCD-based calculations to ALICE measurements of ∆ recoil distributions in pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV, using the data shown in figure 1.
The NLO pQCD-based framework was developed initially to calculate the spindependent hadron-jet coincidence cross section at √ s = 200 GeV [27]. The calculation uses the DSS fragmentation function [65] and the CT10 NLO parton distribution function [66]. We model hadronization by a shift in p T for parton-level jets [67], with the magnitude of the shift determined by a fit to inclusive jet distributions [68]. The resulting particle-level jet distribution is transformed to a charged-jet distribution by applying a response matrix calculated using PYTHIA. The systematic uncertainty of the resulting spectrum is estimated by independently varying the parton distribution function and the factorization and renormalization scales by a factor two. Figure 6, upper panels, show ∆ recoil distributions for R = 0.5, from ALICE data and calculations for pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV. The lower panels show the ratios of these distributions to a function which parameterizes the ALICE data. The PYTHIA calculations for both tunes agree with the measurement within uncertainties; similar agreement is found for R = 0.2 and 0.4. The central values of the NLO calculation are above the measured data by about 20%, though the calculation is consistent with data within uncertainties for R = 0.5. The discrepancy in central values is larger for smaller R, reaching about 50% for R = 0.2, which is not consistent within systematic uncertainties. In pQCD calculations the difference between the parton and jet momenta involves an expansion in terms of log(R), whose contribution may be significant for small R [69]. Improved agreement between the NLO calculation and data for R = 0.2 may therefore be achievable using resummation techniques [69]. Data / Fit    The NLO calculation generates larger ratios than those observed in the data. A related observable, the ratio of inclusive jet production cross sections for R = 0.2 and 0.4 in pp collisions at √ s = 2.76 TeV, has also been compared with pQCD calculations [70]. This comparison shows that both hadronization corrections and perturbative effects that are effectively next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the individual cross sections [68] are required for agreement. Perturbative QCD calculations to higher order than NLO are also needed to describe the ratio of ∆ recoil distributions presented here.
In contrast, PYTHIA simulations agree within uncertainties with data, both for ∆ recoil at fixed R and the ∆ recoil ratio for two different values of R. These comparisons therefore favor PYTHIA calculations for the reference distributions at √ s = 2.76 TeV. PYTHIA combines a LO matrix element with a parton shower resummation of leading logarithmic terms of soft gluon radiation at all orders, leading to an improved description of data compared to a fixed order analytic calculation. The R dependence of ∆ recoil is related to the distribution of jet energy transverse to the jet axis. Scattering of the parton shower within the hot QCD medium may broaden this distribution [28,71]. The magnitude of intra-jet broadening can be measured by comparing ∆ recoil distributions for Pb-Pb collisions with those for pp collisions, in which jets are generated in vacuum. We utilize two related observables for this purpose: (i) ∆I AA , which is the ratio of ∆ recoil for Pb-Pb to that for pp collisions simulated using PYTHIA, for fixed R, and (ii) the ratio of ∆ recoil at two different R in Pb-Pb, compared with that in pp collisions. Figure 9 shows ∆I AA for R = 0.2, 0.4 and 0.5. Suppression of the yield of recoil jets in Pb-Pb collisions is observed, with similar magnitude for all R. Figure 10 shows the ratio of ∆ recoil for R = 0.2 relative to ∆ recoil for R = 0.4 and 0.5, in central Pb-Pb and pp collisions. The systematic uncertainties of the Pb-Pb ratios take into account the correlated systematic uncertainties in numerator and denominator. The shape uncertainties are propagated independently in the ratio, since variation in their components induces different effects as a function of R. The distributions for Pb-Pb and pp collisions are seen to be similar, with no evidence for intra-jet broadening in central Pb-Pb collisions within the uncertainties.

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The CMS collaboration has reported a significant redistribution of energy within R < 0.3 for jets in central Pb-Pb collisions [72], potentially in contrast to figure 10. However, that measurement and the one reported here cannot be compared directly. Modeling of the two measurements within the same theoretical framework is required for their comparison. Figures 9 and 10 show that the recoil jet yield is suppressed, while the intra-jet energy profile is not changed significantly for R ≤ 0.5. We note in addition that the infrared cutoff for jet constituents (tracks) in this measurement is p T,const = 0.15 GeV/c, which strongly constrains the correlated energy within the jet cone that would not be detected by this measurement.
Taken together, these observations are consistent with a picture in which there is significant in-medium transport of radiation to angles larger than 0.5 radians. This picture was initially suggested by a measurement showing that the energy imbalance of highly asymmetric jet pairs is compensated, on an ensemble-averaged basis, by the energy carried by soft particles at large angles relative to the jet axis [23]. Also in this case, however, quantitative comparison of these measurements requires their calculation in a common theoretical framework.
The ∆ recoil distributions in both pp and Pb-Pb collisions are well-described by an exponential distribution ∝ e −p ch T,jet /b , with values of b around 16 GeV/c. Figure 9 shows that ∆I AA has negligible dependence on p ch T,jet for R = 0.4 and 0.5 within 60 < p ch T,jet < 100 GeV/c, which indicates that the values of b are similar within this p T,jet range for the pp and Pb-Pb distributions. The value of ∆I AA in this region can therefore be expressed as the horizontal shift of an exponential distribution of fixed slope. For R = 0.5 in the range 60 < p ch T,jet < 100 GeV/c, the suppression in ∆I AA corresponds to a shift in p ch T,jet of −8 ± 2 (stat) GeV/c. In the scenario of negligible trigger-jet energy loss, this shift corresponds to the average partonic energy loss of the recoil jet population via energy transport to large angles, outside the jet cone.    Figure 11 shows the uncorrected Φ(∆ϕ) distributions for central Pb-Pb data and pp simulations. As noted in section 5.2, we compare the uncorrected Φ(∆ϕ) distribution of Pb-Pb data to a reference distribution for pp collisions (PYTHIA, Perugia 2010 tune), modified by the background and instrumental effects expected for central Pb-Pb collisions. We recall that Φ(∆ϕ) suppresses the uncorrelated contribution from MPI, which otherwise would provide a significant background at large π − ∆ϕ. The absolute yield of the Pb-Pb distribution is seen to be smaller than that of the pp reference. This is consistent with the suppression observed for ∆I AA (figure 9), which is the ratio of the integrals of the Φ(∆ϕ) distributions over the range π − ∆ϕ < 0.6.

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The Φ(∆ϕ) distributions for Pb-Pb and pp collisions are characterized by fitting a function corresponding to an exponential plus a pedestal term [43],  where the parameter σ reflects the width of the distribution. The fit range is 2π/3 < ∆ϕ < π. The fitted values are σ Pb−Pb = 0.173 ± 0.031(stat.) ± 0.005(sys.) and σ PYTHIA = 0.164 ± 0.015(stat.), which are consistent within uncertainties. We find no evidence from this comparison for medium-induced acoplanarity of recoil jets with uncorrected energy in the range 40 < p reco,ch T,jet < 60 GeV/c. The azimuthal distribution between a direct photon (p T,γ > 60 GeV/c) and a recoil jet (p T,jet > 30 GeV/c) has been measured in central Pb-Pb collisions and compared to that from PYTHIA events embedded in a simulation of Pb-Pb collisions [43]. Fits of an exponential function to these distributions give similar values of σ for central Pb-Pb and embedded PYTHIA, likewise indicating no evidence for medium-induced acoplanarity, though the values of σ are larger than those for the analysis reported here. Comparison of the shape of the azimuthal distribution of di-jet pairs in central Pb-Pb data and embedded PYTHIA events has been reported [22,23], with indication of an enhancement in the tail of the distribution for central Pb-Pb collisions [22].
More detailed characterization of the change in the angular distribution with change in TT interval is provided by Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) (eq. (4.4)), which measures the yield in the tail of the distribution beyond a threshold, π/2 < ∆ϕ < π − ∆ϕ thresh . Figure 12, left panel, shows the Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) distributions for central Pb-Pb data and the embedded PYTHIA reference. As discussed in section 5.2, for the measurement of Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) the dataset is divided into exclusive subsets, with each subset used for only one value of threshold, so that the data points in figure 12 are statistically uncorrelated.
The relative contribution to Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) of different physics processes may vary with ∆ϕ thresh . At sufficiently large angular deflection of the jet centroid, at a value of ∆ϕ thresh   which has not yet been determined, the yield is expected to arise predominantly from single hard (Molière) scattering in the hot QCD medium [3,28]. Figure 12, right panel, shows the ratio of the two distributions in the left panel. We utilize this ratio of absolutely normalized distributions in pp and Pb-Pb collisions to search for effects due to Molière scattering.
The value of the ratio at small ∆ϕ thresh corresponds approximately to the ∆ϕintegrated suppression in recoil yield in figure 9, while its dependence on ∆ϕ thresh provides a comparison of the shapes of the distributions. This comparison is quantified by fitting a first-order polynomial function to the ratio of Σ (∆ϕ thresh ) in the right panel. The fit gives a slope of −0.527 ± 0.641(stat.) ± 0.36(sys.), which is consistent with zero within uncertainties. If Moliere scattering were the only mechanism modifying the Pb-Pb distribution relative to that of pp collisions the ratio at large ∆ϕ thresh should be larger than unity; however, the ratio is seen to be below unity at the largest measured ∆ϕ thresh , indicating that other mechanisms have large effect in this region. We find no evidence from this measurement for medium-induced Molière scattering. The uncertainty in this measurement is dominated by the statistical error, however, meaning that additional data, together with measurements at other jet energies and larger angular deviations, will provide more precise constraints on the rate of large-angle scattering in the hot QCD medium.

Summary
We have reported measurements of jet quenching in central Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC, using a new analysis method based on the semi-inclusive distribution of jets recoiling from a high-p T trigger hadron. Discrimination of coincident jet yield from background is carried out at the level of ensemble-averaged distributions with a trigger-difference technique, with no selection bias imposed on the recoil jet population. This approach enables measurement of the distribution of jets with large R and low infrared cutoff for jet constituents, over -28 -

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a broad range of jet energy. Distributions are reported for charged jets in the range 20 < p ch T,jet < 100 GeV/c, for R = 0.2, 0.4 and 0.5. The differential recoil jet yield in central Pb-Pb collisions is suppressed relative to that in pp collisions by up to a factor two for 0.2 ≤ R ≤ 0.5. Together with the low infrared cutoff of this measurement, this indicates that medium-induced energy loss arises predominantly from radiation at angles larger than 0.5 relative to the jet axis. The energy carried by this radiation, which is reflected in the magnitude of the spectrum shift under the assumption of negligible trigger-jet energy loss, is estimated to be 8 ± 2 GeV/c for charged jets with R = 0.5, in the range 60 < p ch T,jet < 100 GeV/c. The ratio of differential recoil jet yields with different R is similar for Pb-Pb and pp collisions. No significant medium-induced modification of the intra-jet energy distribution for angles R ≤ 0.5 relative to the jet axis is thereby observed.
The width of the azimuthal distribution of recoil jets relative to the trigger axis is measured to be similar in Pb-Pb and pp collisions for jets of 40 < p reco,ch T,jet < 60 GeV/c. No significant medium-induced acoplanarity is therefore observed, consistent with findings from di-jet and direct photon-jet measurements. Large angular deflection of the recoil jet may be sensitive to the rate of single Molière scattering in the hot QCD medium and provide a direct probe of its quasi-particle degrees of freedom. We observe no significant rate of such large-angle scatterings, though with limited statistical precision at present. These data, when combined with theoretical calculations, will provide guidance for the necessary precision to achieve discriminating measurements in the future. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.