Publication
Title
Charged particle transverse momentum spectra in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 0.9 and 7 TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
 The charged particle transverse momentum (p T) spectra are presented for pp collisions at s=09 and 7 TeV. The data samples were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to integrated luminosities of 231 μb−1 and 2.96 pb−1, respectively. Calorimeter-based high-transverse-energy triggers are employed to enhance the statistical reach of the high-p T measurements. The results are compared with leading and next-to-leading order QCD and with an empirical scaling of measurements at different collision energies using the scaling variable xT2pTs over the p T range up to 200 GeV/c. Using a combination of x T scaling and direct interpolation at fixed p T, a reference transverse momentum spectrum at s=276 TeV is constructed, which can be used for studying high-p T particle suppression in the dense QCD medium produced in heavy-ion collisions at that centre-of-mass energy.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of high energy physics. - Bristol
Publication
Bristol : 2011
ISSN
1126-6708
1029-8479 [online]
Volume/pages
8(2011), p. 1-39
Article Reference
086
ISI
000294901200075
Medium
E-only publicatie
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