Int. Conference on the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

Session

Discussion session on centrality in pPb

Sep 10, 2013, 5:30 PM

Hotel Louxo - Illa da Toxa - Galicia (Spain)

Conveners

Discussion session on centrality in pPb

• Jorge Casalderrey Solana (University of Barcelona (ES))

Presentation materials

slides

Casalderrey.pdf

103. ALICE Measurements in p-Pb collisions: Multiplicity, Centrality and Implications for Binary Scaling

Dr Alberica Toia (Universita e INFN (IT))

9/10/13, 5:30 PM

Measurements of particle production in proton-nucleus collisions provide a reference to disentangle final state effects, i.e. signatures of the formation of a deconfined hot medium, from initial state effects, already present in cold nuclear matter. Since many initial state effects are expected to vary as a function of the number of collisions suffered by the incoming projectile, it...

113. Centrality determination in pPb collisions with CMS

Mr Shengquan Tuo (Vanderbilt University)

9/10/13, 5:45 PM

Centrality is very important for defining the collision system size in heavy ion collisions. It provides a tool for selecting events in a similar way in different experiments and facilitates the comparison of experimental results and theoretical calculations. The progress of centrality determination in pPb collisions at CMS is presented. The choice of variables used for event classification...