Multiplicity dependence of charged-particle production in pp, p-Pb, Xe-Xe and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC

Abstract

Multiplicity ($N_{\mathrm{ch}}$) distributions and transverse momentum ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) spectra of inclusive primary charged particles in the kinematic range of $|\eta |<0.8$ and 0.15 GeV/$c$ $<p_T<$ 10 GeV/$c$ are reported for pp, p-Pb, Xe-Xe and Pb-Pb collisions at centre-of-mass energies per nucleon pair ranging from $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV up to $13$ TeV. A sequential two-dimensional unfolding procedure is used to extract the correlation between the transverse momentum of primary charged particles and the charged-particle multiplicity of the corresponding collision. This correlation sharply characterises important features of the final state of a collision and, therefore, can be used as a stringent test of theoretical models. The multiplicity distributions as well as the mean and standard deviation derived from the $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ spectra are compared to state-of-the-art model predictions. Providing these fundamental observables of bulk particle production consistently across a wide range of collision energies and system sizes can serve as an important input for tuning Monte Carlo event generators.

33 pages, 13 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 28, published version + fix from erratum, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/8689

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