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

G Aad, B. Abbott, J Abdallah, O Abdinov, B Abeloos, R Aben, Torsten Åkesson, Simona Bocchetta, LENE BRYNGEMARK, Caterina Doglioni, Anders Floderus, Anthony Hawkins, Vincent Hedberg, Jenny Ivarsson, Göran Jarlskog, Else Lytken, Ulf Mjörnmark, Oxana Smirnova, Oleksandr Viazlo, ATLAS Collaboration

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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. © 2016, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.
Original languageEnglish
Article number322
Number of pages23
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume76
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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Export Date: 29 June 2017

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  • Subatomic Physics

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