Measurement of the centrality dependence of the charged particle pseudorapidity distribution in lead-lead collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detectorShow others and affiliations
2012 (English)In: Physics Letters B, ISSN 0370-2693, E-ISSN 1873-2445, Vol. 710, no 3, p. 363-382Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The ATLAS experiment at the LHC has measured the centrality dependence of charged particle pseudorapidity distributions over vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2 in lead-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV. In order to include particles with transverse momentum as low as 30 MeV, the data were recorded with the central solenoid magnet off. Charged particles were reconstructed with two algorithms (2-point "tracklets" and full tracks) using information from the pixel detector only. The lead-lead collision centrality was characterized by the total transverse energy in the forward calorimeter in the range 3.2 < vertical bar eta vertical bar< 4.9. Measurements are presented of the per-event charged particle pseudorapidity distribution, dN(ch)/d eta, and the average charged particle multiplicity in the pseudorapidity interval vertical bar eta vertical bar < 0.5 in several intervals of collision centrality. The results are compared to previous mid-rapidity measurements at the LHC and RHIC. The variation of the mid-rapidity charged particle yield per colliding nucleon pair with the number of participants is consistent with lower root s(NN) results. The shape of the dN(ch)/d eta distribution is found to be independent of centrality within the systematic uncertainties of the measurement.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2012. Vol. 710, no 3, p. 363-382
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Physical Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-175098DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.045ISI: 000303081900001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-175098DiVA, id: diva2:530186
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With 3026 more authors from the ATLAS Collaboration.
2012-06-012012-06-012017-12-07Bibliographically approved