TY - JOUR
T1 - Charged-particle pseudorapidity density at mid-rapidity in p-Pb collisions at root S-NN=8.16 TeV
AU - Acharya, S.
AU - Acosta, F
AU - Adamova, D.
AU - Adhya, S
AU - Adler, A.
AU - Adolfsson, J
AU - Aggarwal, MM.
AU - Rinella, G.A.
AU - Agnello, Maria
AU - Ahammed, Z.
AU - Ahmad, Shamim
AU - Ahn, S.U.
AU - Akindinov, A.
AU - Al-Turany, M.
AU - Alam, SN
AU - Albuquerque, DSD
AU - Aleksandrov, D.
AU - Alessandro, B
AU - Alfaro Molina, R.
AU - Alici, A.
AU - Alkin, A.
AU - Alt, T.
AU - Altenkamper, L.
AU - Altsybeev, I.
AU - Anaam, MN
AU - Andrei, C.
AU - Andreou, Dimosthenis
AU - Bearden, Ian
AU - Bourjau, Christian Alexander
AU - bsm989, bsm989
AU - rtc312, rtc312
AU - Bilandzic, Ante
AU - Chojnacki, Marek
AU - Gajdosova, Katarina
AU - Gaardhøje, Jens Jørgen
AU - Nielsen, Børge Svane
AU - Ozelin De Lima Pimentel, Lais
AU - Thoresen, Freja
AU - Zhou, You
AU - ALICE Collaboration
PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - The pseudorapidity density of charged particles, d N ch / d η, in p–Pb collisions has been measured at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon–nucleon pair of sNN = 8.16 TeV at mid-pseudorapidity for non-single-diffractive events. The results cover 3.6 units of pseudorapidity, | η| < 1.8. The d N ch / d η value is 19.1 ± 0.7 at | η| < 0.5. This quantity divided by ⟨ N part ⟩ / 2 is 4.73 ± 0.20 , where ⟨ N part ⟩ is the average number of participating nucleons, is 9.5% higher than the corresponding value for p–Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV. Measurements are compared with models based on different mechanisms for particle production. All models agree within uncertainties with data in the Pb-going side, while HIJING overestimates, showing a symmetric behaviour, and EPOS underestimates the p-going side of the d N ch / d η distribution. Saturation-based models reproduce the distributions well for η> - 1.3. The d N ch / d η is also measured for different centrality estimators, based both on the charged-particle multiplicity and on the energy deposited in the Zero-Degree Calorimeters. A study of the implications of the large multiplicity fluctuations due to the small number of participants for systems like p–Pb in the centrality calculation for multiplicity-based estimators is discussed, demonstrating the advantages of determining the centrality with energy deposited near beam rapidity.
AB - The pseudorapidity density of charged particles, d N ch / d η, in p–Pb collisions has been measured at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon–nucleon pair of sNN = 8.16 TeV at mid-pseudorapidity for non-single-diffractive events. The results cover 3.6 units of pseudorapidity, | η| < 1.8. The d N ch / d η value is 19.1 ± 0.7 at | η| < 0.5. This quantity divided by ⟨ N part ⟩ / 2 is 4.73 ± 0.20 , where ⟨ N part ⟩ is the average number of participating nucleons, is 9.5% higher than the corresponding value for p–Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV. Measurements are compared with models based on different mechanisms for particle production. All models agree within uncertainties with data in the Pb-going side, while HIJING overestimates, showing a symmetric behaviour, and EPOS underestimates the p-going side of the d N ch / d η distribution. Saturation-based models reproduce the distributions well for η> - 1.3. The d N ch / d η is also measured for different centrality estimators, based both on the charged-particle multiplicity and on the energy deposited in the Zero-Degree Calorimeters. A study of the implications of the large multiplicity fluctuations due to the small number of participants for systems like p–Pb in the centrality calculation for multiplicity-based estimators is discussed, demonstrating the advantages of determining the centrality with energy deposited near beam rapidity.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6801-9
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6801-9
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 79
JO - The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
JF - The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
IS - 4
M1 - 307
ER -