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CP<br />

I<br />

2.5<br />

2.0<br />

1.5<br />

1.0<br />

0.5<br />

0.0<br />

Near si<strong>de</strong><br />

8 GeV/c < p < 15 GeV/c<br />

T,trig<br />

0-5% / 60-90%<br />

Points: flat pe<strong>de</strong>stal<br />

Line: v2<br />

subtracted<br />

ALICE preliminary<br />

p < p<br />

T,assoc<br />

T,trig<br />

2.5<br />

2.0<br />

1.5<br />

1.0<br />

0.5<br />

0.0<br />

2 4 6 8 10<br />

p (GeV/c)<br />

T,assoc<br />

Away si<strong>de</strong><br />

8 GeV/c < p < 15 GeV/c<br />

T,trig<br />

0-5% / 60-90%<br />

ALICE preliminary<br />

p < p<br />

T,assoc<br />

2 4 6 8 10<br />

(GeV/c)<br />

p<br />

T,assoc<br />

T,trig<br />

Points: flat pe<strong>de</strong>stal<br />

Line: v2<br />

subtracted<br />

Figure 2: ICP: the data points are calculated with a flat pe<strong>de</strong>stal; the line is based on v2 subtracted yields.<br />

φ<br />

∆<br />

/d<br />

assoc<br />

dN<br />

trig<br />

1/N<br />

1.0<br />

0.5<br />

0.0<br />

Data<br />

Pythia<br />

6 GeV/c < p < 8 GeV/c<br />

T,trig<br />

1 GeV/c < p < 4 GeV/c<br />

T,assoc<br />

ALICE preliminary<br />

pp 0.9 TeV uncorrected<br />

Stat. uncertainties only<br />

0 2 4<br />

∆φ<br />

(rad.)<br />

φ<br />

∆<br />

/d<br />

assoc<br />

dN<br />

trig<br />

1/N<br />

1.5<br />

1.0<br />

0.5<br />

0.0<br />

Data<br />

Pythia<br />

6 GeV/c < p < 8 GeV/c<br />

T,trig<br />

1 GeV/c < p < 4 Ge V/ c<br />

T,assoc<br />

ALICE preliminary<br />

pp 7 TeV uncorrected<br />

Stat. uncertainties only<br />

0 2 4<br />

∆φ<br />

(rad.)<br />

Figure 3: Uncorrected pe<strong>de</strong>stal-subtracted per-trigger yields from pp collisions at 0.9 (left) <strong>and</strong> 7TeV (right) are<br />

compared to a scaled MC (Pythia 6.4 with the tune Perugia-0).<br />

The last mentioned item has the largest contribution (7-20%) to the systematic uncertainties on<br />

ICP <strong>and</strong> IAA,Pythia.<br />

Results To quantify the effect of the in-medium energy loss, ratios of central to peripheral<br />

yields are calculated ICP = Ycentral/Yperipheral where Ycentral (Yperipheral) is the yield in central<br />

(peripheral) collisions, respectively. Fig. 2 shows ICP using the flat pe<strong>de</strong>stal (data points) <strong>and</strong><br />

v2 subtracted yields (lines). That the only significant difference is in the lowest bin of pT,assoc<br />

confirms the small influence of flow in this pT region. It should be noted that we only consi<strong>de</strong>r<br />

v2 here, although the v3 contribution might be of the same or<strong>de</strong>r, particularly for central events.<br />

The away-si<strong>de</strong> suppression from in-medium energy loss is seen, as expected. Moreover, there is<br />

an unexpected enhancement above unity on the near-si<strong>de</strong>.<br />

To study this further, <strong>and</strong> in particular if the enhancement is due to using peripheral events in<br />

the <strong>de</strong>nominator, it is interesting to calculate IAA = YPb−Pb/Ypp where YPb−Pb (Ypp) is the yield<br />

in Pb-Pb (pp) collisions, respectively. No pp collisions at the same center-of-mass energy than<br />

the recor<strong>de</strong>d Pb-Pb collisions had been produced yet at the time of this analysis. Therefore the<br />

option of using a MC as reference has been investigated. Fig. 3 compares uncorrected pe<strong>de</strong>stalsubtracted<br />

per-trigger yields of pp collisions taken with ALICE to Pythia 6 6.4 with the tune<br />

Perugia-0 7 at √ s = 0.9 <strong>and</strong> 7 TeV. The MC has been scaled such that the yields on the near<br />

si<strong>de</strong> agree with each other. The required scaling factor is 0.8 − 1 <strong>de</strong>pending on pT. One can see

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