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Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions at √ s = 900 GeV measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • University of Freiburg
  • Bogazici University
  • Dogus University
  • Gaziantep University
  • Istanbul Technical University
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • University of Geneva
  • University of Oxford
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Michigan State University
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Milan
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • University of Bonn
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Hampton University
  • Yale University
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • University of Calabria
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Brandeis University
  • University of Granada
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Boston University
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of Alberta
  • University of Texas at Dallas
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • CERN
  • Lund University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • SUNY Albany
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Victoria BC
  • L'Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • West University of Timisoara
  • National Technical University of Athens

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Abstract

The first measurements from proton-proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Data were collected in December 2009 using a minimum-bias trigger during collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 900 GeV. The charged-particle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity, and the relationship between mean transverse momentum and chargedparticle multiplicity are measured for events with at least one charged particle in the kinematic range |η| < 2.5 and pT > 500 MeV. The measurements are compared to Monte Carlo models of proton-proton collisions and to results from other experiments at the same centre-of-mass energy. The charged-particle multiplicity per event and unit of pseudorapidity at η = 0 is measured to be 1.333 ± 0.003(stat.) ± 0.040(syst.), which is 5-15% higher than the Monte Carlo models predict.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)21-42
Number of pages22
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume688
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Apr 2010

Keywords

  • 900 GeV
  • ATLAS
  • Charged-particle
  • LHC
  • Minimum bias
  • Multiplicities

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