%0 Journal Article
%T Measurement of the centrality dependence of the charged particle pseudorapidity distribution in lead-lead collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Amoros, G.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Escobar, C.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Irles Quiles, A.
%A Kaci, M.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lacuesta, V. R.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Miñano, M.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Moles-Valls, R.
%A Moreno Llacer, M.
%A Oliver Garcia, E.
%A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T.
%A Ros, E.
%A Salt, J.
%A Solans, C. A.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valladolid Gallego, E.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Villaplana Perez, M.
%A Vos, M.
%A Wildauer, A.
%J Physics Letters B
%D 2012
%V 710
%N 3
%I Elsevier Science Bv
%@ 0370-2693
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2012
%O WOS:000303081900001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1009), last updated on Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:58:01 +0000
%X The ATLAS experiment at the LHC has measured the centrality dependence of charged particle pseudorapidity distributions over vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2 in lead-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV. In order to include particles with transverse momentum as low as 30 MeV, the data were recorded with the central solenoid magnet off. Charged particles were reconstructed with two algorithms (2-point "tracklets" and full tracks) using information from the pixel detector only. The lead-lead collision centrality was characterized by the total transverse energy in the forward calorimeter in the range 3.2 < vertical bar eta vertical bar< 4.9. Measurements are presented of the per-event charged particle pseudorapidity distribution, dN(ch)/d eta, and the average charged particle multiplicity in the pseudorapidity interval vertical bar eta vertical bar < 0.5 in several intervals of collision centrality. The results are compared to previous mid-rapidity measurements at the LHC and RHIC. The variation of the mid-rapidity charged particle yield per colliding nucleon pair with the number of participants is consistent with lower root s(NN) results. The shape of the dN(ch)/d eta distribution is found to be independent of centrality within the systematic uncertainties of the measurement.
%R 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.045
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.6027
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.045
%P 363-382