Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Charged particle transverse momentum spectra in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9 and 7 TeV

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
 [1]
  1. Yerevan Physics Inst. (Armenia)
The charged particle transverse momentum (pT) spectra are presented for pp collisions at sqrt(s)=0.9 and 7 TeV. The data samples were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to integrated luminosities of 231 inverse microbarns and 2.96 inverse picobarns, respectively. Calorimeter-based high-transverse-energy triggers are employed to enhance the statistical reach of the high-pT measurements. The results are compared with both leading-order QCD and with an empirical scaling of measurements at different collision energies using the scaling variable xT = 2 pT/sqrt(s) over the pT range up to 200 GeV/c. Using a combination of xT scaling and direct interpolation at fixed pT, a reference transverse momentum spectrum at sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV is constructed, which can be used for studying high-pT particle suppression in the dense QCD medium produced in heavy-ion collisions at that centre-of-mass energy.
Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
Contributing Organization:
CMS Collaboration
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1155741
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-11-741-CMS; CERN-PH-EP-2011-049; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1104.3547
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 2011; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Measurement of jet fragmentation in PbPb and pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV
Journal Article · Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Physical Review. C, Nuclear physics · OSTI ID:1186076