Spires | J. High Energy Phys 09 (2011) 109
A measurement of the underlying activity in scattering processes with a hard scale in the several-GeV region is performed in proton-proton collisions at Energies of 0.9 and 7\;TeV, using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The production of charged particles with pseudorapidity |eta| < 2 and transverse momentum $p_\perp > 0.5$\;GeV/$c$ is studied in the azimuthal region transverse to that of the leading set of charged particles forming a track-jet. Various comparisons are made between the two different energies and also beteen two sets of cuts on p_\perp for leading track jet p_\perp-leading $> 3$\;GeV and pT-leading $> 20$\;GeV. The activity is studied using 5 types of plots. Two profile plots for the multiplicity of charged particles and the scalar sum of p_\perp. and three distributions for the two previous quantities as well as p_\perp for all the particles in the transverse region.
Spires | arXiv:1201.2808 [hep-ex]
Pseudorapidity gap distributions in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV are studied using a minimum bias data sample with an integrated luminosity of 7.1 inverse microbarns. Cross sections are measured differentially in terms of $\Delta \eta_F$, the larger of the pseudorapidity regions extending to the limits of the ATLAS sensitivity, at $\eta = \pm 4.9$, in which no final state particles are produced above a transverse momentum threshold $p_\perp$ cut. The measurements span the region $0 < \Delta \eta_F < 8$ for $200 < p_T\text{ cut} < 800\;\text{MeV}$. At small $\Delta \eta_F$, the data test the reliability of hadronisation models in describing rapidity and transverse momentum fluctuations in final state particle production. The measurements at larger gap sizes are dominated by contributions from the single diffractive dissociation process ($pp \to Xp$), enhanced by double dissociation ($pp \to XY$) where the invariant mass of the lighter of the two dissociation systems satisfies $M_Y \lesssim 7\;\text{GeV}$. The resulting cross section is $\mathrm{d} \sigma / \mathrm{d} \Delta \eta_F \sim 1$ mb for $\Delta \eta_F \gtrsim 3$. The large rapidity gap data are used to constrain the value of the pomeron intercept appropriate to triple Regge models of soft diffraction. The cross section integrated over all gap sizes is compared with other LHC inelastic cross section measurements.
Spires | arXiv:1103.1816
Underlying event measurements with the ATLAS detector at the LHC at center-of-mass energies of 900 GeV and 7 TeV, using calorimeter clusters rather than charged tracks.
Spires | arXiv:1012.0791
The underlying event measurements with the ATLAS detector at the LHC at the center of mass energies of 900 GeV and 7 TeV. The observables sensitive to the underlying event, i.e the charged particle density and charged pT sum, as well as their standard deviations and the average pT, are measured as functions of the leading track. A track pT cut of 500 MeV is applied for most observables, but the main profile plots are also shown for a lower track cut of 100 MeV, which includes much more of the soft cross-section. The angular distribution of the charged tracks with respect to the leading track is also studied, as are the correlation between mean transverse momentum and charged particle multiplicity, and the `plateau' height as a function of the leading track $|\eta|$.
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