Investigation of the properties of jets from p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE

Jets from hard scattering processes allow to study the properties of strongly interacting matter produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The hot and dense medium created in such collisions is expected to cause energy loss of hard-scattered partons via elastic scattering and gluon radiation. Eventually, these processes modify the parton fragmentation. We report measurements of charged jets from lead-lead (Pb-Pb) and proton-lead (p-Pb) collisions at ^J= 2.76 TeV and 5.02 TeV. To estimate cold nuclear matter effects, the jet production in p-Pb collisions is studied for different centrality classes and is compared to that in proton-proton (pp) collisions via the nuclear modification factor. In addition, we discuss the measurement of (charged) jets recoiling from a high-p_T trigger hadron, which allows to remove the contribution of combinatorial jets without introducing a bias on the jet population. Furthermore, we report about the measurement of strange hadrons (A, K^g) in association with charged jets from Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions. The results are expected to clarify the role of the fragmentation process in the anomalous baryon-to-meson ratio observed at intermediate p_T in A-A collisions. In particular, the measurement allows disentangling the contributions from jet fragmentation and other hadronisation processes. (paper)