Measurement of the azimuthal ordering of charged hadrons with the ATLAS detector
arXiv:1203.0419 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.052005
Abstract
This paper presents a measurement of the ordering of charged hadrons in the azimuthal angle relative to the beam axis in high-energy proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A spectral analysis of correlations between longitudinal and transverse components of the momentum of the charged hadrons, driven by the search for phenomena related to the structure of the QCD field, is performed. Data were recorded with the ATLAS detector at centre-of-mass energies of sqrt(s) = 900 GeV and sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The correlations measured in a phase space region dominated by low-pT particles are not well described by conventional models of hadron production. The measured spectra show features consistent with the fragmentation of a QCD string represented by a helix-like ordered gluon chain.
arXiv comment12 pages + author list (24 pages in total), 11 figures, 5 tables, revised author list, matches published PRD version
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