Centrality determination of Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV with ALICE

Abelev, B. and Adam, J. and Adamová, D. and Adare, A. M. and Aggarwal, M. M. and Aglieri, Rinella G. and Agnello, M. and Agócs, András and Agostinelli, A. and Ahammed, Z. and Ahmad, N. and Ahmad, Masoodi A. and Ahn, S. U. and Ahn, S. A. and Ajaz, M. and Akindinov, A. and Aleksandrov, D. and Alessandro, B. and Alici, A. and Alkin, A. and Almaráz, Aviña E. and Alme, J. and Alt, T. and Altini, V. and Altinpinar, S. and Altsybeev, I. and Andrei, C. and Andronic, A. and Anguelov, V. and Anielski, J. and Barnaföldi, Gergely Gábor and Bencédi, Gyula and Berényi, Dániel and Boldizsár, László and Dénes, Ervin and Hamar, Gergő and Lévai, Péter and Molnár, Levente and Pochybova, Sona (2013) Centrality determination of Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV with ALICE. PHYSICAL REVIEW C, 88 (4). ISSN 2469-9985

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Abstract

This publication describes the methods used to measure the centrality of inelastic Pb–Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per colliding nucleon pair with ALICE. The centrality is a key parameter in the study of the properties of QCD matter at extreme temperature and energy density, because it is directly related to the initial overlap region of the colliding nuclei. Geometrical properties of the collision, such as the number of participating nucleons and number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions, are deduced from a Glauber model with a sharp impact parameter selection, and shown to be consistent with those extracted from the data. The centrality determination provides a tool to compare ALICE measurements with those of other experiments and with theoretical calculations.

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