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The comparisons of the charged-particle multiplicity and the average transverse momentum distributions on the scaled multiplicity, KNO scale, using the results of the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC are presented. These distributions were measured in proton–proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies from 0.9 to 13 TeV for the absolute pseudorapidity region less than 2.5 and two samples of events with each charged-particle transverse momentum greater than 100 and 500 MeV, respectively. The shape evolution of the multiplicity distributions with a collision energy is studied in terms of KNO scaling variables. The charged-particle multiplicity distributions on the KNO scale have the similar shape and decrease with increasing collision energy. The KNO distributions tend to be independent of energy for the highest energies. The average transverse momentum distributions on the KNO scale have a similar shape and increase with increasing collision energy.
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1 Introduction
The study of charged-particle distributions in proton–proton (\(pp\)) collisions probes the strong interaction in the low-momentum transfer, non-perturbative region of quantum chromodynamics.
Charged-particle distributions were measured at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [1] experiments for various centre-of-mass energies, \( \sqrt{s} \), from 0.9 to 13 TeV by the ATLAS [2] Collaboration [3,4,5,6,7], the CMS [8] Collaboration [9,10,11,12,13], the CMS and TOTEM [14] Collaborations [15], the TOTEM Collaboration [16], the ALICE [17] Collaboration [18,19,20,21,22,23] and the LHCb [24] Collaboration [25, 26]. Charged-particle distributions were studied by the CDF Collaboration at Tevatron (Fermilab) at \( \sqrt{s} = 0.63\), \(1.8\) and \(1.96\) TeV [27, 28] and by the UA1, UA4 and UA5 Collaborations at the SPS (CERN) at \( \sqrt{s} = 0.2\), \(0.54\) and \(0.9\) TeV [29,30,31,32].
Measurements of charged-particle distributions in the ATLAS experiment [3,4,5,6,7] at centre-of-mass energies \(\sqrt{s}=0.9\), \(2.36\), \(7\), \(8\) and \(13\) TeV were performed for the pseudorapidity region \(\mid \eta \mid <2.5\) and for two samples of events: with primary charged-particle multiplicity, \(n_{\mathrm {ch}}\), more than or equal to 2 and 1 and with the each charged-particle transverse momentum \(p_{\mathrm {T}}\) more than \(100\) and \(500\) MeV, respectively.
The hypothesis that at very high energies the probability distributions \( P (n, \sqrt{s}) \) of producing \( n \) particles in a certain collision process should exhibit a scaling relation was proposed in Refs. [33,34,35]. This scaling behaviour is a property of particle multiplicity distributions known as the KNO scaling hypothesis. The main assumption of KNO scaling is Feynman scaling [36], where it was concluded that for asymptotically large energies with \(\sqrt{s} \rightarrow \infty \) the mean total number of any kind of particle rises logarithmically with a centre-of-mass energy as \( \langle n \rangle \propto \ln {\sqrt{s}}\). For this assumption the multiplicity distribution \( P (n, \sqrt{s}) \) was represented as
where \( \langle n (\sqrt{s}) \rangle \) is the average multiplicity of primary particles at centre-of-mass energy, \( \Psi ( z ) \) is a particle distribution as a function of the scaled multiplicity \( z = { n (\sqrt{s}) }/{ \langle n (\sqrt{s}) \rangle } \). The first term in Eq. (1) was results from the leading term in \( \ln {\sqrt{s}} \) (KNO scaling hypothesis) and the second term contains all other terms [37]. The multiplicity distributions become simple rescaled copies of the universal function \( \Psi ( z ) \) depending only on the scaled multiplicity or an energy-independent function. Asymptotically for \(\sqrt{s} \rightarrow \infty \) the second term in Eq. (1) tends to zero and therefore KNO scaling holds.
The energy independence of the moments \( C_{\mathrm {q}} (\sqrt{s}) = {\langle n^q (\sqrt{s}) \rangle }/{\langle n (\sqrt{s}) \rangle ^q} \) in an energy asymptotic, \(\sqrt{s} \rightarrow \infty \), was the precise finding of the KNO scaling [34]. The introduction of the novel physically well-motivated scaling rules for high-energy data was presented in Ref. [38].
The KNO scaling was studied at the LHC energies by the CMS [11] and the ALICE [18, 21] Collaborations. The KNO scaling violation were observed for a larger rapidity range in LHC experiments at centre-of-mass energies \(\sqrt{s} = 0.9\)–\(8\) TeV [11, 18, 21].
Charged-particle multiplicity and transverse momentum distributions in \(pp\) collisions at centre-of-mass energies \(\sqrt{s} = 0.2\)–\(14\) TeV within the Monte Carlo Quark-Gluon String Model (MC QGSM) [39, 40] based on Gribov’s Reggeon field theory [41, 42] were studied in Refs. [43, 44], where special attention was given to the origin of violation of the KNO scaling. Detailed theoretical description of the KNO scaling was done in Refs. [37, 45, 46].
This publication presents in Sect. 2 the comparison of the charged-particle distributions as a function on the KNO scale, in Sect. 3 the study of the KNO scaling and in Sect. 4 the comparison of the average transverse momentum of the primary charged particles as a function on the KNO scale based on the results of the ATLAS Collaboration. The moments \( C_{\mathrm {q}} \) were not studied by the ATLAS Collaboration and is not discussed in the paper.
2 Charged-particle multiplicity distributions
The measurements used for the analysis are the data on \(pp\) collisions at \( \sqrt{s} = 0.9\)–\(13\) TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment [2] at the LHC [1] in 2010–2015 [3,4,5,6,7]. The data were taken in the special configuration of the LHC with low beam currents and reduced beam focusing, producing a low mean number of interactions per bunch-crossing in the range \(0.003\)–\(0.007\).
The following measured observables are used in the analysis: \( P (n_{\mathrm {ch}}, \sqrt{s}) =({d N_{\mathrm {ev}} (\sqrt{s})}/{ d n_{\mathrm {ch}}})/{ N_{\mathrm {ev}} (\sqrt{s}) } \) and \( \langle p_{\mathrm {T}} ( n_{\mathrm {ch}}, \sqrt{s}) \rangle , \) where \(N_{\mathrm {ev}} \) is the number of events with primary charged particles in the kinematic acceptance, \(n_{\mathrm {ch}}\) is the number of primary charged particles within the kinematic acceptance in an event and \(\langle p_{\mathrm {T}} ( n_{\mathrm {ch}}, \sqrt{s}) \rangle \) is the average momentum component transverse to the beam direction for charged particles in an event at centre-of-mass energy \( \sqrt{s} \).
As was defined in Sect. 1, for the verification of the KNO scaling hypothesis the following equation with dependence from a centre-of-mass energy, \(\sqrt{s}\), and a kinematic region, \( p_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {min}} \), was used:
For correct comparison of charged-particle multiplicity and average transverse momentum distributions for different energies or kinematic regions the scaled multiplicity is introduced as follows:
For example, comparison of results for different kinematic regions, with two \( p_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {min}} \) thresholds, was presented in Ref. [47].
A fit with a fourth-degree polynomial function of the primary charged-particle average multiplicity distributions in the pseudorapidity region \(-2.5< \eta < 2.5\) was used for the calculation of an average multiplicity, \( \langle n_{\mathrm {ch}} ( \sqrt{s}, p_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {min}} ) \rangle \), for different centre-of-mass energies and \(p_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {min}} \) using the ATLAS results [3,4,5,6,7]. The \( 1/N_{\mathrm {ev}} \cdot d n_{\mathrm {cn}}/d\eta \) distributions on pseudorapidity are shown in Fig. 1. The average multiplicity, \( \langle n_{\mathrm {ch}} ( \sqrt{s}, p_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {min}} ) \rangle \), as the results of these distributions fit with fourth-degree polynomial function are presented in Table 1. The \( \chi ^2/ndf\) is good for all fits. The average multiplicity as the results of the sum of these distributions agree with the fit results up to the third digit after coma. Therefore the systematic uncertainties for average multiplicities calculated using these methods is negligible.
The comparison of the primary charged-particle multiplicities as a function of the scaled multiplicity \(z\) or KNO scale, defined in Eq. (3), for events with \(n_{\mathrm {ch}} \ge 2\) and \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV; \(n_{\mathrm {ch}} \ge 1\) and \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV for \(\mid \eta \mid < 2.5\) measurement by ATLAS Collaboration at the \( \sqrt{s} \) from \(0.9\) to \(13\) TeV [3,4,5,6,7] are presented in Figs. 2 and 3, respectively. For these figures the multiplicity axis was compressed by the factor \( \langle n_{\mathrm {ch}} ( \sqrt{s}, p_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {min}} ) \rangle \). KNO scale is the same and therefore it is the correct scale for comparing distributions at different center-of-mass energies or distributions in different kinematic regions.
The scaled multiplicity regions are up to \(7.5\) average multiplicity for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV and up to \(10.5\) average multiplicity for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV as shown in Figs. 2a and 3a, respectively.
In Table 1 the relative uncertainty, \( \delta \langle n_{\mathrm {ch}} \rangle / \langle n_{\mathrm {ch}}\rangle \), is for average multiplicities. Relative uncertainties are small and equal to 0.32–0.66% for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV and 0.24–0.46% for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV, except result at \(\sqrt{s}=2.36\) GeV which was measured with the worst accuracy. The relative uncertainty for a bin size, \( \delta z/ \Delta z \), of KNO variable \(z\) is equal to \( \delta \langle n_{\mathrm {ch}} \rangle /\langle n_{\mathrm {ch}}\rangle \). Therefore influence of average multiplicity uncertainties presented in Table 1 on KNO scale are very small.
In the bottom panels ratios of charged-particle distributions at \(0.9\)–\(8\) TeV to the distribution at \( 13\) TeV are shown. Ratios, and their uncertainties, of charged-particle distributions at smaller centre-of-mass energies to the distribution at \(13\) TeV, which was obtained by interpolation, are presented in Figs. 2, 3 and following figures in Sects. 3 and 4. For the interpolation procedure the Interpolator method of the Root statistical analysis framework [48] was used. Figures 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 show the gray curve and band of the uncertainties as the result of the interpolation of the distribution at \(13\) TeV.
Figures 2 and 3 show that primary charged-particle multiplicity distributions decrease as collision energy increases from \(0.9\) to \(13\) TeV on the factor of \(\approx 3\) for maximum at \( z \approx 0.7 \).
The results for the \(\sqrt{s} = 7\), \(8\) and \(13\) TeV and \(z \le 3\) are presented in Fig. 2b for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV and Fig. 3b for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV. One can see that for the distributions at \( \sqrt{s} = 7\) and \(8\) TeV there is agreement within error bars except for region \( 0.5< z < 1.5 \). The multiplicity distribution at \(8\) TeV is \(\approx 20\)% larger than at \(13\) TeV for region the \( z < 3\) in both cases.
3 Study of the KNO scaling
The KNO scale variable \(z \) in Eq. (3) provides the way to study the evolution of the shape of KNO charged-particle multiplicity distributions (2) with varying centre-of-mass energy and kinematic region, for example \(p_{\mathrm {T}}\) threshold. The KNO distributions (2) and their ratios are presented in Fig. 4 for charged particles with \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV and Fig. 5 for charged particles with \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV. These figures are similar to Figs. 2 and 3 but the vertical axis is stretched by the factor \( \langle n_{\mathrm {ch}} (\sqrt{s}, p_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {min}})\rangle \).
The quantities of interest are derived from the original set of nine KNO distributions and the ratios of these distributions to the one at \(13\) TeV. The high-multiplicity tail of distributions is pushed up and the maximum of the distribution is shifted towards small values of \(z\) with collision energy increase.
Ratios of the KNO distributions between the smallest centre-of-mass energy \(0.9\) and \(13\) TeV exceed the maximum positive value at \( z \approx 0.8 \) and the maximum negative value for the highest multiplicity at \( z \approx 5.5 \) for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV (Fig. 4a) and \( z \approx 6.5 \) for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV (Fig. 5a). There is an intersection point for all distributions at \( z \approx 2\).
A test of the KNO scaling distributions between \(\sqrt{s} = 0.9\) and \(13\) TeV confirms that KNO scaling violation increases with decreasing collision energy. Ratios of the KNO distributions between the highest energies \(8\) and \(13\) TeV exceed the maximum value of \(+8\)% at \( z \approx 0.5 \) and the minimum value of \(-15\)% at \( z \approx 0.1 \) for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV (Fig. 4b) and the maximum value of \(+5\)% at \( z \approx 0.5 \) and \( -13 \)% at \( z \approx 0.1 \) for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV (Fig. 5b). For the high multiplicity tail, these ratios are in agreement within error bars with the KNO distribution at \(13\) TeV.
Single- and double-diffractive processes give an important contribution only for the low multiplies region, \(z \lesssim 0.3\). The typologies of diffractive and non-diffractive events are different and their KNO behavior may be also different. The negative spread, \( \lesssim -8 \)%, for the low multiplicity may be the results of diffractive processes contributing.
The KNO scaling tends to be independent of energy at \(\sqrt{s} = 8\) and \(13\) TeV within \( \approx ^{ +8}_{-15} \)% for \( z \lesssim 2 \) and within error bars for \( z \gtrsim 2 \) for events with charged-particle transverse momentum \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV (Fig. 4b), and within \( ^{ +5}_{-13} \)% for \( z \lesssim 3 \) and within error bars for \( z \gtrsim 3 \) for events with charged-particle transverse momentum \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV (Fig. 5b). The tendency of the KNO scaling to hold for the highest collision energies is observed.
The MC QGSM predictions are made for the KNO non-diffractive charged-particle multiplicity distributions for \(pp\) collisions including at highest LHC centre-of-mass energy \(\sqrt{s}= 14\) TeV for \(\mid \eta \mid <2.4\) on Fig. 12 in Ref. [43]. These distributions are the same qualitative behaviour as those presented in Fig. 4a. The MC QGSM described the KNO distributions as the contribution of the cylinder diagram and diagrams with multi-Pomeron scattering. The pronounced peak in the low \(z\) arises solely due to a single Pomeron exchange and the maxima of distributions for multi-Pomeron processes are moved in the direction of high \(z\) thus pushed up the tail [43].
4 Average transverse momentum dependences
The correct comparison of the primary charged-particle average transverse momentum, \(\langle p_{\mathrm {T}}\rangle \), as a function of the scaled multiplicity \( z\) (3) for events with \(n_{\mathrm {ch}} \ge 2\) and \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV; \(n_{\mathrm {ch}} \ge 1\) and \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV for \(\mid \eta \mid < 2.5\) measurement at the centre-of-mass energies from \(0.9\) to \(13\) TeV by the ATLAS [3,4,5,6,7] are presented in Fig. 6.
Figure 6a, b show an increase of the average transverse momentum distributions with the scaled multiplicity. The \(\langle p_{\mathrm {T}}\rangle \) distribution as a function of \( z \) acquires higher value at higher collision energies. The value of \(\langle p_{\mathrm {T}}\rangle \) increases by \( 18\)% and \(13\)% for \(z > 1\) with energy increase from \(0.9\) to \(13\) TeV for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV and \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV, respectively. The results at \(7\) and \(8\) TeV are in agreement within error bars. The value of \(\langle p_{\mathrm {T}}\rangle \) increases by \(\approx 3\)% for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >100\) MeV and by \(\approx 2.5\)% for \(p_{\mathrm {T}} >500\) MeV with increase in energy from \(8\) to \(13\) TeV for \(z > 0.5\). The ratio of \(\langle p_{\mathrm {T}}\rangle \) for \(8\) to \(13\) TeV are in \(\approx 6\) times smaller than the ratio for \(0.9\) to \(13\) TeV.
5 Conclusion
The comparisons of the charged-particle multiplicity and the average transverse momentum distributions on the scaled multiplicity, KNO scale, using the results of the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC were presented. These distributions were measured in proton–proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies \(\sqrt{s} = 0.9\), \( 2.36\), \(7\), \(8\) and \(13\) TeV for the absolute pseudorapidity region less than \(2.5\) and for two events samples \(n_{\mathrm {ch}} \ge 2\), \(p_{\mathrm {T}} > 100\) MeV and \(n_{\mathrm {ch}} \ge 1\), \(p_{\mathrm {T}} > 500\) MeV. The charged-particle multiplicity distributions on the KNO scale have the similar shape and decrease with increasing energy. The study of the KNO scaling using the ATLAS results was done. A test of the KNO scaling between \(0.9\) and \(13\) TeV confirms that the KNO scaling violation increases with decreasing collision energy. The KNO distributions tend to be independent of energy for the highest energies. The mean transverse momentum on the KNO scale has the same shape and increases with increasing energy.
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We thank the ATLAS collaboration for the excellent experimental results which were used for this analysis. Special thanks to E. K. Sarkisyan-Grinbaum and S. Ya. Tokar for several productive discussions. Thanks to E. E. Zabrodin for fruitful discussions concerning QGSM predictions. Useful discussions with V. V. Glagolev, G. I. Lykasov and N. A. Russakovich are gratefully acknowledged.
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Kulchitsky, Y., Tsiareshka, P. Study of the KNO scaling in \( pp\) collisions at \(\sqrt{s}\) from 0.9 to 13 TeV using results of the ATLAS at the LHC. Eur. Phys. J. C 82, 462 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10420-y
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