Journal Article

Charged-particle multiplicities in proton–proton collisions at s=0.9 to 8 TeV

Andrei, C., Alexandre, D., Colamaria, F., Marchisone, M., Kurepin, A. B., Muhuri, S., Pan, J., Karavicheva, T., Browning, T. A., Dobrin, A., Bombara, M., Elia, D., Fleck, M. G., Rakotozafindrabe, A., Nayak, K., De Pasquale, S., Putschke, J., Adamová, D., Keidel, R., Riabov, V., Costa, H. Pereira Da, Tariq, M., Gaardhøje, J. J., Augustinus, A., Tumkin, A., Cicalo, C., Oliver, M. H., Rocco, E., Ronchetti, F., Kim, H., Onderwaater, J., Hussain, N., Kiselev, S., Scomparin, E., Das, D., Zhigareva, N., Grigoriev, V., Petrovici, M., Mitra, J., Wagner, J., Olah, L., Schuster, T., Chapeland, S., Pérez, J. Mercado, Nandi, B. K., Lezama, E. Perez, Haake, R., Skaali, T. B., Kuryakin, A., Majka, R. D., Margagliotti, G. V., Cosentino, M. R., Šándor, L., Takahashi, J., Munhoz, M. G., Giubellino, P., Shabanov, A., Vinogradov, Y., Bustamante, R. T. Jimenez, Ferreiro, E. G., Dash, S., Samsonov, V., Lévai, P., Loginov, V., Shabetai, A., Windelband, B., Ghosh, S. K., Vercellin, E., Murray, S., Vargas, A., Kuijer, P. G., Jacobs, P. M., Papikyan, V., Figiel, J., Engel, H., de Guevara, P. Ladron, Völkl, M. A., Závada, P., Bielčík, J., Silvermyr, D., Tarzila, M. G., T

2017

Overview

A detailed study of pseudorapidity densities and multiplicity distributions of primary charged particles produced in proton–proton collisions, at s = 0.9, 2.36, 2.76, 7 and 8 TeV, in the pseudorapidity range | η | < 2 , was carried out using the ALICE detector. Measurements were obtained for three event classes: inelastic, non-single diffractive and events with at least one charged particle in the pseudorapidity interval | η | < 1 . The use of an improved track-counting algorithm combined with ALICE’s measurements of diffractive processes allows a higher precision compared to our previous publications. A KNO scaling study was performed in the pseudorapidity intervals | η | < 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5. The data are compared to other experimental results and to models as implemented in Monte Carlo event generators PHOJET and recent tunes of PYTHIA6, PYTHIA8 and EPOS.

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Subject: Astronomy / Astrophysics and Cosmology / Elementary Particles / Fysik / Hadrons / Heavy Ions / Measurement Science and Instrumentation / Natural Sciences / Naturvetenskap / Nuclear Energy / Nuclear Physics / Physical Sciences / Physics / Physics and Astronomy / Quantum Field Theories / Quantum Field Theory / Regular Article - Experimental Physics / String Theory / Subatomic Physics / Subatomär fysik