Dijet imbalance in 2.76 TeV PbPb collisions in CMS

We present the measurement of dijet production in PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV that is studied with the CMS detector at the LHC. We use data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 150 $\mu$b$^{-1}$. Jets are reconstructed using the anti-$\rm k_T$ algorithm on particle flow objects. The dijet momentum balance and angular correlations are studied as a function of collision centrality and leading jet momentum. For the most peripheral PbPb collisions, good agreement of the dijet momentum balance distributions with pp data and reference calculations at the same collision energy is found. However, more central collisions show a strong imbalance of leading and subleading jet transverse momenta, confirming the previous observations made using a smaller dataset. The extended jet transverse momentum range significantly increases the discriminatory power of the measurement for different models of parton energy loss in hot QCD matter.