Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Abstract
A measurement of the underlying activity in events with a jet of transverse momentum in the several GeV region is performed in proton-proton collisions at √s = 0.9 and 7 TeV, using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The production of charged particles with pseudorapidity |η|<2 and transverse momentum pT >0.5 GeV/c is studied in the azimuthal region transverse to that of the leading set of charged particles forming a track-jet. A significant growth of the average multiplicity and scalar-pT sum of the particles in the transverse region is observed with increasing pT of the leading trackjet, followed by a much slower rise above a few GeV/c. For track-jet pT larger than a few GeV/c, the activity in the transverse region is approximately doubled with a centreof-mass energy increase from 0.9 to 7 TeV. Predictions of several QCD-inspired models as implemented in PYTHIA are compared to the data.
DOI
10.1007/JHEP09(2011)109
Publication Date
2011
Recommended Citation
Chatrchyan, S.; Baarmand, Marc M.; Dorney, B.; Guragain, Samir; Hohlmann, Marcus; Kalakhety, Himali; Ralich, Robert M.; Vodopiyanov, Igor; and The CMS Collaboration, "Measurement Of The Underlying Event Activity At The LHC With √s = 7 TeV And Comparison With √s = 0.9 TeV" (2011). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 578.
https://repository.fit.edu/apss_faculty/578