A generic search is presented for the associated production of a Z boson or a photon with an additional unspecified massive particle X,
The striking resemblance of high multiplicity proton-proton (pp) collisions at the LHC to heavy ion collisions challenges our conventional wisdom on the formation of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). A consistent explanation of the collectivity phenomena in pp will help us to understand the mechanism that leads to the QGP-like signals in small systems. In this study, we introduce a transport model approach connecting the initial conditions provided by PYTHIA8 with subsequent AMPT rescatterings to study the collective behavior in high energy pp collisions. The multiplicity dependence of light hadron productions from this model is in reasonable agreement with the pp
- Award ID(s):
- 2012947
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10305784
- Publisher / Repository:
- Springer Science + Business Media
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The European Physical Journal C
- Volume:
- 81
- Issue:
- 8
- ISSN:
- 1434-6044
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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