# Measurement of the charged-particle multiplicity inside jets from $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector

Abstract : The number of charged particles inside jets is a widely used discriminant for identifying the quark or gluon nature of the initiating parton and is sensitive to both the perturbative and non-perturbative components of fragmentation. This paper presents a measurement of the average number of charged particles with $p_\text{T}>500$ MeV inside high-momentum jets in dijet events using 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of data recorded with the ATLAS detector in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV collisions at the LHC. The jets considered have transverse momenta from 50 GeV up to and beyond 1.5 TeV. The reconstructed charged-particle track multiplicity distribution is unfolded to remove distortions from detector effects and the resulting charged-particle multiplicity is compared to several models. Furthermore, quark and gluon jet fractions are used to extract the average charged-particle multiplicity for quark and gluon jets separately.
Document type :
Journal articles

http://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-01301679
Contributor : Emmanuelle Vernay <>
Submitted on : Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 4:24:54 PM
Last modification on : Saturday, January 2, 2021 - 11:26:02 PM

### Citation

G. Aad, S. Albrand, S. Berlendis, C. Camincher, J. Collot, et al.. Measurement of the charged-particle multiplicity inside jets from $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2016, 76, pp.322. ⟨10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4126-5⟩. ⟨in2p3-01301679⟩

Record views