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Measurement of charged-particle distributions sensitive to the underlying event in $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Preprint published in 2017 by Torsten Paul Ake Åkesson, R. E. Ticse Torres, Damián Άlvarez Piqueras, Riccardo de Asmundis, Augusto Santiago Cerqueira, Paul de Jong, Domenico della Volpe, Pascal Pralavorio, Hidetoshi Otono, Yulia Rodina, Mohamed Ouchrif, Farid Ould-Saada, Ahmimed Ouraou, Koen Pieter Oussoren, Qun Ouyang and other authors.
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Abstract

We present charged-particle distributions sensitive to the underlying event, measured by the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, in low-luminosity Large Hadron Collider fills corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.6 nb$^{-1}$. The distributions were constructed using charged particles with absolute pseudorapidity less than 2.5 and with transverse momentum greater than 500 MeV, in events with at least one such charged particle with transverse momentum above 1 GeV. These distributions characterise the angular distribution of energy and particle flows with respect to the charged particle with highest transverse momentum, as a function of both that momentum and of charged-particle multiplicity. The results have been corrected for detector effects and are compared to the predictions of various Monte Carlo event generators, experimentally establishing the level of underlying-event activity at LHC Run 2 energies and providing inputs for the development of event generator modelling. The current models in use for UE modelling typically describe this data to 5% accuracy, compared with data uncertainties of less than 1%. ; Comment: 40 pages in total, author list starting page 24, 7 figures, 3 tables, submitted to JHEP, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2016-07/