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author Sirimanna, Chathuranga
Tachibana, Yasuki
Majumder, Abhijit
Angerami, Aaron
Arora, Ritu
Bass, Steffen
Chen, Yi
Datta, Ritoban
Du, Lipei
Ehlers, Raymond
Elfner, Hannah
Fries, Rainer J.
Gale, Charles
He, Yayun
Jacak, Barbara
Jacobs, Peter
Jeon, Sangyong
Ji, Yi
Jonas, Florian
Kasper, Lauren
Kordell, Michael
Kumar, Amit
Kunnawalkam-Elayavalli, Raghav
Latessa, Joseph
Lee, Yen-Jie
Lemmon, Roy
Luzum, Matt
Mak, Simon
Mankolli, Andi
Martin, Christal
Mehryar, Haydar
Mengel, Tanner
Nattrass, Christine
Norman, Jaime
Paquet, Jean-Francois
Parker, Cameron
Putschke, Joern H.
Roch, Hendrik
Roland, Gunther
Schenke, Bjoern
Schwiebert, Loren
Sengupta, Arjun
Shen, Chun
Singh, Mayank
Soeder, Derek
Soltz, Ron A.
Soudi, Ismail
Velkovska, Julia
Vujanovic, Gojko
Wang, Xin-Nian
Wu, Xinag-Yu
Zhao, Wenbin
author_facet Sirimanna, Chathuranga
Tachibana, Yasuki
Majumder, Abhijit
Angerami, Aaron
Arora, Ritu
Bass, Steffen
Chen, Yi
Datta, Ritoban
Du, Lipei
Ehlers, Raymond
Elfner, Hannah
Fries, Rainer J.
Gale, Charles
He, Yayun
Jacak, Barbara
Jacobs, Peter
Jeon, Sangyong
Ji, Yi
Jonas, Florian
Kasper, Lauren
Kordell, Michael
Kumar, Amit
Kunnawalkam-Elayavalli, Raghav
Latessa, Joseph
Lee, Yen-Jie
Lemmon, Roy
Luzum, Matt
Mak, Simon
Mankolli, Andi
Martin, Christal
Mehryar, Haydar
Mengel, Tanner
Nattrass, Christine
Norman, Jaime
Paquet, Jean-Francois
Parker, Cameron
Putschke, Joern H.
Roch, Hendrik
Roland, Gunther
Schenke, Bjoern
Schwiebert, Loren
Sengupta, Arjun
Shen, Chun
Singh, Mayank
Soeder, Derek
Soltz, Ron A.
Soudi, Ismail
Velkovska, Julia
Vujanovic, Gojko
Wang, Xin-Nian
Wu, Xinag-Yu
Zhao, Wenbin
contents Prompt photons are important yet challenging to observe in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, as they are produced in the early stages and traverse almost the entire QGP medium without interaction. Experimental analyses typically employ isolation cuts, in the hope to identify prompt photons. Most theoretical studies consider only events with actual prompt photons, assuming no contribution from isolated non-prompt photons to reduce computational cost. For the first time, we present a study that compares simulation results generated using inclusive (bremsstrahlung) and prompt-photon events with multiple experimental observables for both $p-p$ and $Pb-Pb$ collisions at $5.02$ TeV. Simulations are carried out using the multi-stage JETSCAPE framework tuned to describe the quenching of jets and hadrons. Isolated non-prompt photons are generated in hard photon bremsstrahlung, where the photon is radiated at a sufficient angle to the jet. Several photon triggered jet and jet substructure observables show significant contributions from inclusive photons, yielding an improvement in comparison with experimental data. Novel photon triggered jet substructure observables are also expected to show new structures, yet to be detected in experiment. This effort examines the significance of isolated non-prompt photons using parameters tuned for a simultaneous description of the leading hadron and jet spectrum, and thus provides an independent verification of the multistage evolution framework.
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spellingShingle Interplay of prompt and non-prompt photons in photon-triggered jet observables
Sirimanna, Chathuranga
Tachibana, Yasuki
Majumder, Abhijit
Angerami, Aaron
Arora, Ritu
Bass, Steffen
Chen, Yi
Datta, Ritoban
Du, Lipei
Ehlers, Raymond
Elfner, Hannah
Fries, Rainer J.
Gale, Charles
He, Yayun
Jacak, Barbara
Jacobs, Peter
Jeon, Sangyong
Ji, Yi
Jonas, Florian
Kasper, Lauren
Kordell, Michael
Kumar, Amit
Kunnawalkam-Elayavalli, Raghav
Latessa, Joseph
Lee, Yen-Jie
Lemmon, Roy
Luzum, Matt
Mak, Simon
Mankolli, Andi
Martin, Christal
Mehryar, Haydar
Mengel, Tanner
Nattrass, Christine
Norman, Jaime
Paquet, Jean-Francois
Parker, Cameron
Putschke, Joern H.
Roch, Hendrik
Roland, Gunther
Schenke, Bjoern
Schwiebert, Loren
Sengupta, Arjun
Shen, Chun
Singh, Mayank
Soeder, Derek
Soltz, Ron A.
Soudi, Ismail
Velkovska, Julia
Vujanovic, Gojko
Wang, Xin-Nian
Wu, Xinag-Yu
Zhao, Wenbin
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Prompt photons are important yet challenging to observe in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, as they are produced in the early stages and traverse almost the entire QGP medium without interaction. Experimental analyses typically employ isolation cuts, in the hope to identify prompt photons. Most theoretical studies consider only events with actual prompt photons, assuming no contribution from isolated non-prompt photons to reduce computational cost. For the first time, we present a study that compares simulation results generated using inclusive (bremsstrahlung) and prompt-photon events with multiple experimental observables for both $p-p$ and $Pb-Pb$ collisions at $5.02$ TeV. Simulations are carried out using the multi-stage JETSCAPE framework tuned to describe the quenching of jets and hadrons. Isolated non-prompt photons are generated in hard photon bremsstrahlung, where the photon is radiated at a sufficient angle to the jet. Several photon triggered jet and jet substructure observables show significant contributions from inclusive photons, yielding an improvement in comparison with experimental data. Novel photon triggered jet substructure observables are also expected to show new structures, yet to be detected in experiment. This effort examines the significance of isolated non-prompt photons using parameters tuned for a simultaneous description of the leading hadron and jet spectrum, and thus provides an independent verification of the multistage evolution framework.
title Interplay of prompt and non-prompt photons in photon-triggered jet observables
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00905