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Min-Bias and the Underlying Event at the LHC

2012/02/04 by Rick Field, Field, Rick
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1202.0901

Lecture presented at XXXI Physics in Collision (PIC2011), Vancouver, BC Canada, August 28 - September 1, 2011

arxiv created 2012/02/04 · arxiv updated 2012/02/07

Abstract

The CDF PYTHIA 6.2 Tune DW predictions for the behavior of the LHC underlying event (UE) data at 900 GeV and 7 TeV are examined in detail. The behavior of the UE at the LHC is roughly what we expected. The LHC PYTHIA 6.4 Tune Z1 does an excellent job describing the UE data at 900 GeV and 7 TeV. Both Tune DW and Tune Z1 describe fairly well the Drell-Yan UE data at 1.96 TeV and 7 TeV. No model describes all the features of "min-bias" (MB) collisions at 900 GeV and 7 TeV.

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