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Main Authors: Ortiz, Antonio, Palomo, Lizardo Valencia, Neriz, Victor Manuel Minjares
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20406
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author Ortiz, Antonio
Palomo, Lizardo Valencia
Neriz, Victor Manuel Minjares
author_facet Ortiz, Antonio
Palomo, Lizardo Valencia
Neriz, Victor Manuel Minjares
contents The ALICE collaboration recently reported the mean transverse momentum as a function of charged-particle multiplicity for different pp-collisions classes defined based on the "jettiness" of the event. The event "jettiness" is quantified using transverse spherocity that is measured at midpseudorapidity ($|η|<0.8$) considering charged particles with transverse momentum within $0.15<p_{\rm T}<10$ GeV/$c$. Comparisons to PYTHIA 8 (tune Monash) predictions show a notable disagreement between the event generator and data for jetty events that increases as a function of charged-particle multiplicity. This paper reports on the origin of such a disagreement using PYTHIA 8 event generator. Since at intermediate and high $p_{\rm T}$ ($2<p_{\rm T}<10$ GeV/$c$), the spectral shape is expected to be modified by color reconnection or jets, their effects on the average $p_{\rm T}$ are studied. The results indicate that the origin of the discrepancy is the overpredicted multijet yield by PYTHIA 8 which increases with the charged particle multiplicity. This finding is important to understand the way transverse spherocity and multiplicity bias the pp collisions, and how well models like PYTHIA 8 reproduce those biases. The studies are pertinent since transverse spherocity is currently used as an event classifier by experiments at the LHC.
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spellingShingle Understanding the transverse-spherocity biased data from pp collisions at the LHC energies
Ortiz, Antonio
Palomo, Lizardo Valencia
Neriz, Victor Manuel Minjares
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
The ALICE collaboration recently reported the mean transverse momentum as a function of charged-particle multiplicity for different pp-collisions classes defined based on the "jettiness" of the event. The event "jettiness" is quantified using transverse spherocity that is measured at midpseudorapidity ($|η|<0.8$) considering charged particles with transverse momentum within $0.15<p_{\rm T}<10$ GeV/$c$. Comparisons to PYTHIA 8 (tune Monash) predictions show a notable disagreement between the event generator and data for jetty events that increases as a function of charged-particle multiplicity. This paper reports on the origin of such a disagreement using PYTHIA 8 event generator. Since at intermediate and high $p_{\rm T}$ ($2<p_{\rm T}<10$ GeV/$c$), the spectral shape is expected to be modified by color reconnection or jets, their effects on the average $p_{\rm T}$ are studied. The results indicate that the origin of the discrepancy is the overpredicted multijet yield by PYTHIA 8 which increases with the charged particle multiplicity. This finding is important to understand the way transverse spherocity and multiplicity bias the pp collisions, and how well models like PYTHIA 8 reproduce those biases. The studies are pertinent since transverse spherocity is currently used as an event classifier by experiments at the LHC.
title Understanding the transverse-spherocity biased data from pp collisions at the LHC energies
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20406