Sprecher
Beschreibung
Two-particle azimuthal correlations are a powerful tool to investigate the details of the mechanisms of jet quenching and hadron production. Suitable candidates for these studies are strange mesons ($\mathrm{K^{0}_{S}}$) and baryons ($\Lambda/\overline{\Lambda}$), as their relative production rates differ for jets originating from quark or gluon. Measurements of near- and away-side hadron yields associated with these hadrons as trigger particles therefore provide additional constraining power for in-medium energy loss of different high-$p_{\rm T}$ partons and their fragmentation properties.
In this contribution, we present ratios of per-trigger yields in Pb-Pb collisions with respect to pp collisions, $I_{\mathrm{AA}}$ measured at midrapidity in the most central 0-10% collisions with the ALICE detector, with $\mathrm{K^{0}_{S}}$, $\Lambda/\overline{\Lambda}$ and charged hadrons as trigger particles. A significant enhancement of $I_{\mathrm{AA}}$ for various particle species is found at the lowest associated-particle $p_\mathrm{T,assoc}$ on both the near- and away-side, while a strong suppression of $I_{\mathrm{AA}}$ for $p_\mathrm{T,assoc}$ $>3$ $\mathrm{GeV}/c$ on away-side is observed, as expected from strong in-medium energy loss. The data are compared to HIJING, AMPT and EPOS models, where the latter two qualitatively describe the near- and away-side yield modifications at intermediate and high $p_\mathrm{T,assoc}$.
Affiliation
CERN
| Experiment/Theory | ALICE |
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