Charged particle production in proton-proton collisions is studied with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 7 TeV in different intervals of pseudorapidity eta. Charged particles are reconstructed close to the interaction region in the vertex detector, which provides high reconstruction efficiency in the eta ranges -2.5 < eta < -2.0 and 2.0 < eta < 4.5. The data were taken with a minimum bias trigger, only requiring one or more reconstructed tracks in the vertex detector. By selecting an event sample with at least one track with a transverse momentum greater than 1 GeV/c a hard QCD subsample is investigated. Several event generators are compared with the data; none are able to describe fully the multiplicity distributions or the charged particle density distribution as a function of eta. In general, the models underestimate charged particle production.
Archilli, F., Carboni, G., Messi, R., Santovetti, E., The LHCb, C. (2012). Measurement of charged particle multiplicities in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV in the forward region. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 72(4) [10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1947-8].
Measurement of charged particle multiplicities in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV in the forward region
Archilli, FMembro del Collaboration Group
;Carboni, GMembro del Collaboration Group
;Messi, RMembro del Collaboration Group
;Santovetti, EMembro del Collaboration Group
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2012-01-01
Abstract
Charged particle production in proton-proton collisions is studied with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 7 TeV in different intervals of pseudorapidity eta. Charged particles are reconstructed close to the interaction region in the vertex detector, which provides high reconstruction efficiency in the eta ranges -2.5 < eta < -2.0 and 2.0 < eta < 4.5. The data were taken with a minimum bias trigger, only requiring one or more reconstructed tracks in the vertex detector. By selecting an event sample with at least one track with a transverse momentum greater than 1 GeV/c a hard QCD subsample is investigated. Several event generators are compared with the data; none are able to describe fully the multiplicity distributions or the charged particle density distribution as a function of eta. In general, the models underestimate charged particle production.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
