2017/07/11 by V. Zaccolo, Zaccolo, Valentina
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #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.1707.03211
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At high collision energies as achieved at the LHC there are increasing contributions from hard processes, which can be computed with perturbative QCD. Nevertheless, particle production is still dominated by soft QCD with transferred momentum of a few GeV. These phenomena are described by non-perturbative phenomenology and challenge the theoretical models. ALICE has measured several observables which target soft QCD, both in Run 1 and 2 proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at the LHC. A selection of results will be presented in these proceedings, focusing on the model comparisons and summarising the understanding of soft QCD after almost 8 years of data taking.