Aad, G.Abbott, B.Abbott, D. C.Abud, A. AbedAbeling, K.Abhayasinghe, D. K.Çetin, Serkant Ali2024-07-182024-07-1820210031-90071079-7114https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.072301https://hdl.handle.net/11411/7709The yield of charged particles opposite to a Z boson with large transverse momentum (p(T)) is measured in 260 pb(-1) of pp and 1.7 nb(-1) of Pb + Pb collision data at 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The Z boson tag is used to select hard-scattered partons with specific kinematics, and to observe how their showers are modified as they propagate through the quarkgluon plasma created in Pb + Pb collisions. Compared with pp collisions, charged-particle yields in Pb + Pb collisions show significant modifications as a function of charged-particle p(T) in a way that depends on event centrality and Z boson p(T). The data are compared with a variety of theoretical calculations and provide new information about the medium-induced energy loss of partons in a p(T) regime difficult to measure through other channels.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPp CollisionsJetPhotonArticle2-s2.0-8510240931310.1103/PhysRevLett.126.072301733666476Q1126Q1WOS:000620021300012