CMS: Transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in pp collisions at p [?] = 0.9 and 2.36TeV

Authors

S. Chatrchyan
Ekaterina Avdeeva, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Kenneth Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
S. Bose, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Jamila Butt, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Daniel R. Claes, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Aaron Dominguez, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
M. Eads, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln,Follow
R. Gonzalez Suarez, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
P. Jindal, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
J. Keller, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
D. Knowlton, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Ilya Kravchenko, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Jose Lazo-Flores, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Helena Malbouisson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Sudhir Malik, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
F. Meier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln,Follow
Gregory Snow, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2010

Citation

JHEP02 (2010) 041

Comments

Open access

doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2010)041

Abstract

Measurements of inclusive charged-hadron transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity distributions are presented for proton-proton collisions at [?] = 0.9 and 2.36 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector during the LHC commissioning in December 2009. For non-single-diffractive interactions, the average charged-hadron transverse momentum is measured to be 0:46 ± 0:01 (stat.) ± 0.01 (syst.) GeV/c at 0.9 TeV and 0:50 ± 0:01 (stat.) ± 0.01 (syst.) GeV/c at 2.36 TeV, for pseudorapidities between -2:4 and +2:4. At these energies, the measured pseudorapidity densities in the central region, dN_ch/dn|_|n|<0.5, are 3.48±0.02 (stat.) ± 0.13 (syst.) and 4.47±0.04 (stat.) ± 0.16 (syst.), respectively. The results at 0.9 TeV are in agreement with previous measurements and confirm the expectation of near equal hadron production in pp and pp collisions. The results at 2.36 TeV represent the highest-energy measurements at a particle collider to date.