Measurements of jet shape observables in √s_NN = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at STAR

Jets are highly collimated sprays of particles emitted by energetic partons from hard scatterings. In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, these hard-scattered partons undergo various interactions with the surrounding Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) medium, resulting in the emitted jets having their energy and substructure modified relative to those in $pp$ collisions. Jet shape observables probe the energy and multiplicity distributions within a jet and are sensitive to the dynamics of the parton shower. Recently, raw distributions of some of these observables have been reported by the STAR experiment at RHIC for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV. To study the hot medium effects on these observables, corrections due to detector effects need to be established. Monte Carlo simulations of $pp$ events from PYTHIA 8, after passing through a GEANT simulation of the STAR detector, are embedded into minimum-bias real Au+Au events at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV. This talk presents a status update of quantifying detector effects in measurements of jet shape observables by comparing particle- and detector-level jets from the aforementioned embedding sample.