Full Jet Reconstruction in 2.76 TeV pp and Pb-Pb collisions in the ALICE experiment

Understand

Measurements of the suppression of high-pT particles and the away-side jets from heavy-ion collisions at RHIC have shown that medium-induced energy loss affects partons produced in the early stage of a heavy-ion collision.

• At LHC energies the initial production cross-section is much higher, which allows jets to be reconstructed with a wide kinematic range.
• Measuring fully reconstructed jets by taking advantage of the ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter allows for a more differential investigation of the parton energy loss.
• Parton energy loss will allow us to access key observables of the hot, dense matter created in heavy ion collisions.