Study of ordered hadron chains with the ATLAS detector

The analysis of the momentum difference between charged hadrons in high-energy proton-proton collisions is performed in order to study coherent particle production. The observed correlation pattern agrees with a model of a helical QCD string fragmenting into a chain of ground-state hadrons. A thresh...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Onofre, A. (author)
Outros Autores: Castro, Nuno Filipe Silva Fernandes (author), ATLAS Collaboration (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2017
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/48935
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/48935
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Resumo:The analysis of the momentum difference between charged hadrons in high-energy proton-proton collisions is performed in order to study coherent particle production. The observed correlation pattern agrees with a model of a helical QCD string fragmenting into a chain of ground-state hadrons. A threshold momentum difference in the production of adjacent pairs of charged hadrons is observed, in agreement with model predictions. The presence of low-mass hadron chains also explains the emergence of charge-combination-dependent two-particle correlations commonly attributed to Bose-Einstein interference. The data sample consists of 190  μb−1 of minimum-bias events collected with proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy √s=7  TeV in the early low-luminosity data taking with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.