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

Aad, G. and Abbott, B. and Abdallah, J. and Abdinov, O. and Abeloos, B. and Krasznahorkay, Attila and Pásztor, Gabriella and Tóth, József (2016) Measurement of the charged-particle multiplicity inside jets from √{s}=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 76. ISSN 1434-6044

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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_ {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 √{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.

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