Jet Reconstruction in Heavy Ion Collisions

Matteo Cacciari, Juan Rojo, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez

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Abstract

We examine the problem of jet reconstruction at heavy-ion colliders using jet-area-based background subtraction tools as provided by FastJet. We use Monte Carlo simulations with and without quenching to study the performance of several jet algorithms, including the option of filtering, under conditions corresponding to RHIC and LHC collisions. We find that most standard algorithms perform well, though the anti-kt and filtered Cambridge/Aachen algorithms have clear advantages in terms of the reconstructed transverse-momentum offset and dispersion.
Original languageEnglish
Article number1539
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields
Volume71
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Oct 2010

Bibliographical note

31 pages, 17 figures

Keywords

  • hep-ph

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