Measurement of the underlying event activity at the LHC with √ s = 7 TeV and comparison with √ s = 0.9 TeV
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The CMS Collaboration; Alver, Burak Han; Bauer, Gerry P; Bendavid, Joshua L.; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Dutta, Valentina; Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Harris, Philip Coleman; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Lee, Y.-J.; Li, W.; Loizides, Constantinos; Luckey Jr, P David; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, D.; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Rudolph, Maja; Stephans, George S. F.; Stockli, Fabian; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Sung, K.; Wenger, Edward Allen; Wolf, Roger; Xie, Si; Yang, M.; Yilmaz, Y.; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; ... Show more Show less
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A measurement of the underlying activity in events with a jet of transverse momentum in the several GeV region is performed in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 0:9 and 7TeV, using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The production of charged particles with pseudorapidity |η|<2 and transverse momentum pT >0:5 GeV/c is studied in the azimuthal region transverse to that of the leading set of charged particles forming a track-jet. A significant growth of the average multiplicity and scalar-pT sum of the particles in the transverse region is observed with increasing pT of the leading trackjet, followed by a much slower rise above a few GeV/c. For track-jet pT larger than a few GeV/c, the activity in the transverse region is approximately doubled with a centreof- mass energy increase from 0:9 to 7TeV. Predictions of several QCD-inspired models as implemented in pythia are compared to the data.
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2011Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Chatrchyan, S., et al. "Measurement of the Underlying Event Activity at the Lhc with Root S=7 Tev and Comparison with Root S=0.9 Tev." Journal of High Energy Physics 9 (2011).
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