TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al AU - Amoros, G. AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Escobar, C. AU - Ferrer, A. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Hernandez Jimenez, Y. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Irles Quiles, A. AU - Kaci, M. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lacuesta, V. R. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Miñano, M. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Moles-Valls, R. AU - Moreno Llacer, M. AU - Oliver Garcia, E. AU - Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. AU - Ros, E. AU - Salt, J. AU - Sanchis-Lozano, M. A. AU - Solans, C. A. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Torro Pastor, E. AU - Valladolid Gallego, E. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Villaplana Perez, M. AU - Vos, M. AU - Wildauer, A. PY - 2010 DA - 2010// TI - Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions at root s=900 GeV measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC T2 - Phys. Lett. B JO - Physics Letters B SP - 21 EP - 42 VL - 688 IS - 1 PB - Elsevier Science Bv KW - Charged-particle KW - Multiplicities KW - 900 GeV KW - ATLAS KW - LHC KW - Minimum bias AB - The first measurements from proton-proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Data were collected in December 2009 using a minimum-bias trigger during collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 900 GeV. The charged-particle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity, and the relationship between mean transverse momentum and charged-particle multiplicity are measured for events with at least one charged particle in the kinematic range vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2.5 and p(T) > 500 MeV. The measurements are compared to Monte Carlo models of proton-proton collisions and to results from other experiments at the same centre-of-mass energy. The charged-particle multiplicity per event and unit of pseudorapidity eta = 0 is measured to be 1.333 +/- 0.003(stat.) +/- 0.040(syst.), which is 5-15% higher than the Monte Carlo models predict. SN - 0370-2693 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3124 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.064 DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.064 LA - English N1 - ISI:000286150500001 ID - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2010 ER -