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Long- and short-range correlations and their event-scale dependence in high-multiplicity pp collisions at $\boldsymbol{\sqrt{{\textit s}}}=13$ TeV

Nuclear Experiment 2021-08-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Two-particle angular correlations are measured in high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} =13 TeV by the ALICE Collaboration. The yields of particle pairs at short-(Δη\Delta\eta \sim 0) and long-range (1.6<Δη<1.81.6 < |\Delta\eta| < 1.8) in pseudorapidity are extracted on the near-side (Δφ\Delta\varphi \sim 0). They are reported as a function of transverse momentum (pTp_{\mathrm T}) in the range 1<pT<41 <p_{\mathrm T}< 4 GeV/cc. Furthermore, the event-scale dependence is studied for the first time by requiring the presence of high-pTp_{\rm T} leading particles and jets for varying pTp_{\rm T} thresholds. The results demonstrate that the long-range "ridge" yield, possibly related to the collective behavior of the system, is present in events with high-pTp_{\mathrm T} processes. The magnitudes of the short- and long-range yields are found to grow with the event scale. The results are compared to EPOS LHC and PYTHIA 8 calculations, with and without string-shoving interactions. It is found that while both models describe the qualitative trends in the data, calculations from EPOS LHC show a better quantitative agreement, in particular for the pTp_{\rm T} and event-scale dependencies.

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@article{arxiv.2101.03110,
  title  = {Long- and short-range correlations and their event-scale dependence in high-multiplicity pp collisions at $\boldsymbol{\sqrt{{\textit s}}}=13$ TeV},
  author = {ALICE Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.03110},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

24 pages, 7 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 19, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/6759