@article{35ab84129cb24a64b597858007cdbfb7,
title = "Charged-particle pseudorapidity density at mid-rapidity in p–Pb collisions at √sNN = 8.16 TeV",
abstract = "The pseudorapidity density of charged particles, d Nch/ d η, in p–Pb collisions has been measured at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon–nucleon pair of sNN = 8.16 TeV at mid-pseudorapidity for non-single-diffractive events. The results cover 3.6 units of pseudorapidity, | η| < 1.8. The d Nch/ d η value is 19.1 ± 0.7 at | η| < 0.5. This quantity divided by ⟨ Npart⟩ / 2 is 4.73 ± 0.20 , where ⟨ Npart⟩ is the average number of participating nucleons, is 9.5% higher than the corresponding value for p–Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV. Measurements are compared with models based on different mechanisms for particle production. All models agree within uncertainties with data in the Pb-going side, while HIJING overestimates, showing a symmetric behaviour, and EPOS underestimates the p-going side of the d Nch/ d η distribution. Saturation-based models reproduce the distributions well for η> - 1.3. The d Nch/ d η is also measured for different centrality estimators, based both on the charged-particle multiplicity and on the energy deposited in the Zero-Degree Calorimeters. A study of the implications of the large multiplicity fluctuations due to the small number of participants for systems like p–Pb in the centrality calculation for multiplicity-based estimators is discussed, demonstrating the advantages of determining the centrality with energy deposited near beam rapidity.",
author = "{ALICE Collaboration} and S. Acharya and Acosta, {F. T.} and D. Adamov{\'a} and Adhya, {S. P.} and A. Adler and J. Adolfsson and Aggarwal, {M. M.} and Rinella, {G. Aglieri} and M. Agnello and Z. Ahammed and S. Ahmad and Ahn, {S. U.} and S. Aiola and A. Akindinov and M. Al-Turany and Alam, {S. N.} and Albuquerque, {D. S.D.} and D. Aleksandrov and B. Alessandro and Alfanda, {H. M.} and Molina, {R. Alfaro} and Y. Ali and A. Alici and A. Alkin and J. Alme and T. Alt and L. Altenkamper and I. Altsybeev and Anaam, {M. N.} and C. Andrei and D. Andreou and Andrews, {H. A.} and A. Andronic and M. Angeletti and V. Anguelov and C. Anson and T. Anti{\v c}i{\'c} and F. Antinori and P. Antonioli and R. Anwar and N. Apadula and L. Aphecetche and H. Appelsh{\"a}user and S. Arcelli and R. Arnaldi and M. Arratia and Arsene, {I. C.} and M. Arslandok and A. Augustinus and Seger, {J. E.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements The ALICE Collaboration would like to thank J. Albacete, W.-T. Deng, A. Dumitru, T. Pierog and K. Werner for helpful discussions on their model predictions. The ALICE Collaboration would like to thank all its engineers and technicians for their invaluable contributions to the construction of the experiment and the CERN accelerator teams for the outstanding performance of the LHC complex. The ALICE Collaboration gratefully acknowledges the resources and support provided by all Grid centres and the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) collaboration. The ALICE Collaboration acknowledges the following funding agencies for their support in building and running the ALICE detector: A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation (ANSL), State Committee of Science and World Federation of Scientists (WFS), Armenia; Austrian Academy of Sciences and Nationalstiftung f{\"u}r Forschung, Technolo-gie und Entwicklung, Austria; Ministry of Communications and High Technologies, National Nuclear Research Center, Azerbaijan; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient{\'i}fico e Tecnol{\'o}gico (CNPq), Uni-versidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Finep) and Funda{\c c}{\~a}o de Amparo {\`a} Pesquisa do Estado de S{\~a}o Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil; Ministry of Science & Technology of China (MSTC), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Ministry of Education of China (MOEC) , China; Ministry of Science and Education, Croatia; Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnol{\'o}g-icas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Cubaenerg{\'i}a, Cuba; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic; The Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences, the Carlsberg Foundation and Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), Denmark; Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Finland; Commissariat {\`a} l{\textquoteright}Energie Atomique (CEA) and Institut National de Physique Nucl{\'e}aire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France; Bundesministerium f{\"u}r Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) and GSI Helmholtzzentrum f{\"u}r Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Germany; General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Research and Religions, Greece; National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary; Department of Atomic Energy Government of India (DAE), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST), University Grants Commission, Government of India (UGC) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India; Indonesian Institute of Science, Indonesia; Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy; Institute for Innovative Science and Technology , Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science (IIST), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI and Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia (CONACYT) y Tec-nolog{\'i}a, through Fondo de Cooperaci{\'o}n Internacional en Ciencia y Tec-nolog{\'i}a (FONCICYT) and Direcci{\'o}n General de Asuntos del Personal Academico (DGAPA), Mexico; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Weten-schappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Netherlands; The Research Council of Norway, Norway; Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), Pakistan; Pontificia Universidad Cat{\'o}lica del Per{\'u}, Peru; Ministry of Science and Higher Education and National Science Centre, Poland; Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Republic of Korea; Ministry of Education and Scientific Research, Institute of Atomic Physics and Romanian National Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Romania; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Russian Science Foundation and Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russia; Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, Slovakia; National Research Foundation of South Africa, South Africa; Swedish Research Council (VR) and Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW), Sweden; European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland; National Science and Tech- nology Development Agency (NSDTA), Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) and Office of the Higher Education Commission under NRU project of Thailand, Thailand; Turkish Atomic Energy Agency (TAEK), Turkey; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom; National Science Foundation of the United States of America (NSF) and United States Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics (DOE NP), United States of America. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, CERN for the benefit of the ALICE collaboration.",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6801-9",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "79",
journal = "Zeitschrift fur Physik C-Particles and Fields",
issn = "1434-6044",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "4",
}