Charged Jet Spectra in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with ALICE

Abstract

The ALICE experiment was designed mainly to study the formation of the exotic, very hot and very dense state of matter known as the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), which occurs in Pb-Pb collisions. An important probe to form a basic understanding of the strong interactions in the QGP is the study of proton-proton collisions. In this thesis, the charged jet cross section at mid-rapidity produced in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energy √s = 13 TeV will be studied. The analyzed data sample includes a total of 12 million minimum bias triggered events from LHC run 2, collected in ALICE during the period from 2017 to 2018. A further subsample of 1,7 million Transition Radiation Detector triggered events has also been analyzed. Jets are reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm, and the raw spectra is unfolded using the Bayesian method.