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Measurement of the charged-particle multiplicity inside jets from √s = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Michigan State University
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • University of Oregon
  • Stockholm University
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Belgrade
  • University of Göttingen
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • CERN
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • The University of Chicago
  • Columbia University

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Abstract

The number of charged particles inside jets is a widely used discriminant for identifying the quark or gluon nature of the initiating parton and is sensitive to both the perturbative and non-perturbative components of fragmentation. This paper presents a measurement of the average number of charged particles with >500 pT> 500 {\mathrm{MeV}} MeV  inside high-momentum jets in dijet events using 20.3 fb-1 of data recorded with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV  collisions at the LHC. The jets considered have transverse momenta from 50 GeV  up to and beyond 1.5 TeV. The reconstructed charged-particle track multiplicity distribution is unfolded to remove distortions from detector effects and the resulting charged-particle multiplicity is compared to several models. Furthermore, quark and gluon jet fractions are used to extract the average charged-particle multiplicity for quark and gluon jets separately.

Original languageEnglish
Article number322
Pages (from-to)1-23
Number of pages23
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume76
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2016

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