2019/10/10 by V. Zaccolo, Zaccolo, Valentina
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.04457
openalex publication_date 2019/10/10 · openalex created_date 2022/07/28 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
ALICE has performed several measurements aimed at understanding the collective-like effects observed in small collision systems. New approaches may be needed to clarify particle-production mechanisms in high-multiplicity pp collisions. Transverse momentum (p\rm T) spectra as a function of charged-particle multiplicity show intriguing features. For example, data exhibit a stronger-than-linear increase of the self-normalised high-p\rm T particle yields versus multiplicity. In order to understand the role of auto-correlations on these effects, it has been proposed to use the underlying event as a multiplicity estimator to factorise the hardest and the softest components of the events. This approach can also be used to study collective effects in events with exceptionally large activity in the underlying-event region with respect to the event-averaged mean. In these proceedings, p\rm T spectra as a function of underlying-event activity in pp collisions measured with the ALICE detector are presented. Results are compared with PYTHIA 8.2 event generator.