Study of charged-particle multiplicity fluctuations in pp collisions with Monte Carlo event generators at the LHC

Abstract

Proton-Proton ($pp$) collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are simulated in order to study events with a high local density of charged particles produced in narrow pseudorapidty windows of $\Delta \eta$ = 0.1, 0.2, and 0.5. The $pp$ collisions are generated at center of mass energies of $\sqrt{s}=2.36$, $7$, $8$, and $13$ TeV, i.e. the energies at which the LHC has operated so far, using PYTHIA and HERWIG event generators. We have also studied the average of the maximum charged-particle density versus the event multiplicity for all events, using the different pseudorapidity windows. This study prepares for the multi-particle production background expected in a future search for anomalous high-density multiplicity fluctuations using the LHC data.

arXiv comment15 pages, 5 figures, submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics E

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