Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Abstract
Results on two-particle angular correlations for charged particles emitted in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 0.9, 2.36, and 7TeV are presented, using data collected with the CMS detector over a broad range of pseudorapidity (η) and azimuthal angle (φ). Short-range correlations in Δη, which are studied in minimum bias events, are characterized using a simple "independent cluster" parametrization in order to quantify their strength (cluster size) and their extent in η (cluster decay width). Long-range azimuthal correlations are studied differentially as a function of charged particle multiplicity and particle transverse momentum using a 980 nb -1 data set at 7TeV. In high multiplicity events, a pronounced structure emerges in the two-dimensional correlation function for particle pairs with intermediate px of 1-3 GeV/c, 2.0 < |Δη| < 4.8 and Δφ ≈0. This is the first observation of such a long-range, near-side feature in two-particle correlation functions in pp or pp̄ collisions.
DOI
10.1007/JHEP09(2010)091
Publication Date
2010
Recommended Citation
Khachatryan, Vardan; Baarmand, Marc M.; Dorney, B.; Guragain, Samir; Hohlmann, Marcus; Kalakhety, H.; Ralich, Robert M.; Vodopiyanov, Igor; and The CMS Collaboration, "Observation Of Long-range, Near-side Angular Correlations In Proton-proton Collisions At The LHC" (2010). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 568.
https://repository.fit.edu/apss_faculty/568