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We have carried out the first detailed theoretical investigation of the medium modification on the reclustered LR jets production as well as its the hardest parton splitting in Pb + Pb collisions relative to that in p + p collisions. The nuclear
modification factor of the reclustered LR jets evaluated as a function of jet transverse momentum is a little smaller than the value of inclusive R = 0.4 jets. A quantitative calculation of the absolute amount of the transverse momentum missing in the medium shows that reclustered LR jets will lose larger fraction of its energy than inclusive R = 0.4 jets with the same transverse momentum due to its complex structure. The fraction of energy loss via jet quenching rapidly increases in the region p^jet_T < 80 GeV/c, and smoothly decreases with increasing p^jet_T when p jet T > 80 GeV/c. As a result of which, the nuclear modification factor for reclustered LR jet is a little smaller than that of inclusive R = 0.4 jet and increases smoothly with increasing p^jet_T.
The jet spectrum evaluated as a function of the splitting
scale √d12 of the hardest parton splitting obtained from a
reclusting procedure is overall suppressed in Pb + Pb collisions relative to p + p collisions and the nuclear modification
factor RAA sharply decreases with increasing √d12 for small
values of the splitting scale followed by flattening for larger
√d12. The suppression is a result of the reduction of jet yields
as well as the modification on the jet fragmentation pattern.
Jet energy loss dominates the modification in large splitting
scale region, while the change of jet fragmentation pattern via
different modification mechanism has almost 50% contributions in small splitting scales region. √d12 is strongly correlated to the splitting angle R12 and fragmentation function z. A detailed calculation of the splitting angle R12 and fragmentation function z shows that reclustered LR jet with small
splitting angle or small z is less suppressed, which lead to the
√d12 dependence of the nuclear modification pattern.
A further investigation on splitting angle R12 from (≥
2) → (≥ 2) processes shows that jet yield is suppressed
in small R12 < 0.25 region, while is enhanced in 0.25 <
R12 < 0.5 region, and keeps unmodified in large R12
region. Further, we find that (≥ 2) → 1 processes plays
a dominant role in the reduction of jet yields in large R12
region. And the contribution of 1 → (≥ 2) processes is much
larger than that from (≥ 2) → 1 processes in small angle
region, which gives the enhancement of jet yield in small
R12 region.
Finally, we demonstrate that in (≥ 2) → (≥ 2) processes
the z distribution in Pb + Pb is moderately enhanced in small z region and suppressed in large z region. In addition, contribution from 1 → (≥ 2) processes is larger than that from
(≥ 2) → 1 processes in the whole region, which may moderately increase the jet yields. The total contributions of these
three processes give rise to a large deviation in small z region
and moderate difference in large z region in Pb + Pb collisions as compared to p + p collisions, and eventually leading
to the √d12 dependence of the nuclear modification factors.
