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  - Fiorini, L.
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  - Solans, C. A.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
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  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - 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
T2  - Phys. Lett. B
JO  - Physics Letters B
SP  - 363
EP  - 382
VL  - 710
IS  - 3
PB  - Elsevier Science Bv
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0370-2693
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.6027
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.045
DO  - 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.045
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000303081900001
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2012
ER  -