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Abstract:

The measurement of the transverse-momentum fraction ($z^{\rm ch}$) carried by prompt and non-prompt J/$ψ$ in charged-particle jets in proton--proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}= 13$ TeV is reported by the ALICE Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is based on a Transition Radiation Detector triggered data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $\mathcal{L} = 1.63\pm0.03$ pb$^{-1}$. Inclusive J/$ψ$ mesons with transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) above 1 GeV/$c$ are reconstructed at midrapidity through the electron--positron decay channel. The prompt and non-prompt J/$ψ$ contributions are separated using the secondary vertices from beauty-hadron decays. Jets are reconstructed from J/$ψ$-meson candidates and charged particles using the anti-$k_{\rm T}$ algorithm with jet resolution parameter $R = 0.4$ in the pseudorapidity range $|η_{\text{jet}}| <~ 0.5$. The distribution of the charged-particle jet $p_{\rm T}$ fraction carried by the prompt and non-prompt J/$ψ$ mesons, $z^{\rm ch}$, is measured in the range $0.3 <~ z^{\rm ch} \leq 1.0$ for the jet-$ p_{\rm T}$ range $7 <~ p_{\rm T}^{\rm jet} <~ 15$ GeV/$c$. The measured $z^{\rm ch}$ distributions for prompt and non-prompt J/$ψ$ are compared to pQCD calculations and PYTHIA 8 simulations. Prompt and non-prompt J/$ψ$ production within charged-particle jets are found to be qualitatively well reproduced by PYTHIA 8 for $z^{\rm ch}<~0.9$, however, as $z^{\rm ch}$ approaches one, the simulations overshoot the measured data, indicating an overestimation of the fraction of isolated J/$ψ$. This observed tension between data and simulations in the highest $z^{\rm ch}$ bins reflects the challenge of simulating hadronization of low-momentum jets.

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