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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 14: Starke Wechselwirkung (Experiment) I
T 14.3: Talk
Monday, February 29, 2016, 11:30–11:45, VMP8 SR 206
Measurement of pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV by the CMS experiment — •Juan Manuel Grados Luyando, Benoit Roland, and Hannes Jung — DESY, Hamburg, Germay
Pseudorapidity distributions of charged-particles, Nch/dη, produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV are measured in the pseudorapidity range |η| < 2.4 for charged-particles with a transverse momentum pT > 0.5 GeV. Measurements are presented for three event categories. The most inclusive category corresponds to an inelastic enhanced event sample. The other two categories are disjoint subsets of the inclusive sample that are either enhanced or depleted in single diffractive dissociation events. The measurements are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo event generators which were tuned to describe the underlying event topologies at √s = 7 TeV.