Measurement of angular correlations inside jets induced by gluon polarization in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV

The CMS collaboration
CMS-SMP-25-006, 2026.

Abstract (data abstract)
A study of angular correlations arising from gluon polarization effects inside jets is performed using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV.The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 34.7 $fb^{-1}$, collected in 2022 with the CMS detector at the LHC.The details of the parton shower are investigated using jets reconstructed with the $anti-k_T$ algorithm and declustered with the Cambridge–Aachen algorithm.A novel analysis technique is developed to identify characteristic features of the jet substructure and to select intermediate gluon splittings into quark-antiquark pairs.An observable sensitive to gluon polarization in the shower is measured and compared with PYTHIA 8 and HERWIG 7 model predictions, with and without spin correlations.The results support the predictions that include gluon polarization effects, while strongly disfavoring models that neglect them.

  • Figure 1 qqbar Score

    Data from Figure 1, located on page 4.

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    DNN output qqbar score for a jet identified in the qqbar class in the data and in the different MC...

  • Figure 2 Delta phi (left)

    Data from Figure 2(left), located on page 5.

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    Delta phi distribution in data and MC simulations for the inclusive sample

  • Figure 2 Delta phi (right)

    Data from Figure 2(right), located on page 5.

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    Delta phi distribution in data and MC simulations in the qqbar category with score qq > 0.6 cut

  • Figure 3 Unfolded Delta phi

    Data from Figure 3, located on page 6.

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    Unfolded Delta phi distribution in events of the qqbar category with score qq > 0.6 in data compared to MC...

  • Figure A.1 Delta phi (up left)

    Data from Figure A.1(up left), located on page 10.

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    Delta phi distribution in data and MC simulations in the unmatched category.

  • Figure A.1 Delta phi (up right)

    Data from Figure A.1(up right), located on page 10.

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    Delta phi distribution in data and MC simulations in the qg category.

  • Figure A.1 Delta phi (bottom)

    Data from Figure A.1(bottom), located on page 10.

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    Delta phi distribution in data and MC simulations in the gg category.

  • Figure A.2 Delta phi (up left)

    Data from Figure A.2(up left), located on page 11.

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    Delta phi distribution in data and MC simulations in the qqbar category with score qq > 0.4 cut.

  • Figure A.2 Delta phi (up right)

    Data from Figure A.2(up right), located on page 11.

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    Delta phi distribution in data and MC simulations in the qqbar category with score qq > 0.5 cut.

  • Figure A.2 Delta phi (bottom)

    Data from Figure A.2(bottom), located on page 11.

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    Ratio of the data to the correlation-off PYTHIA 8 predictions.

  • Figure A.3 Unfolded Delta phi

    Data from Figure A.3, located on page 12.

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    Unfolded Delta phi distribution in the inclusive events in data compared to MC simulations.

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