Forward-backward correlations and charged-particle azimuthal distributions in pp interactions using the ATLAS detector

doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2012)019

Abstract:

Using inelastic proton-proton interactions at sqrt(s) = 900 GeV and 7 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC, measurements have been made of the correlations between forward and backward charged-particle multiplicities and, for the first time, between forward and backward charged-particle summed transverse momentum. In addition, jet-like structure in the events is studied by means of azimuthal distributions of charged particles relative to the charged particle with highest transverse momentum in a selected kinematic region of the event. The results are compared with predictions from tunes of the PYTHIA and HERWIG++ Monte Carlo generators, which in most cases are found to provide a reasonable description of the data.

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Forward-backward correlations and charged-particle azimuthal distributions in pp interactions using the ATLAS detector

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The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Hydrodynamic Approaches in Relativistic Heavy Ion Reactions

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$Z_3$ Scalar Singlet Dark Matter

References

Geant4—a simulation toolkit

PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual

A Brief Introduction to PYTHIA 8.1

New generation of parton distributions with uncertainties from global QCD analysis

The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

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