Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector

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Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector. / The LHCb Collaboration.

In: Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 17, No. 5, P05009, 01.05.2022.

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The LHCb Collaboration 2022, 'Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector', Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 17, no. 5, P05009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/05/P05009

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The LHCb Collaboration (2022). Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector. Journal of Instrumentation, 17(5), [P05009]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/05/P05009

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The LHCb Collaboration. Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector. Journal of Instrumentation. 2022 May 1;17(5):P05009. doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/17/05/P05009

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The LHCb Collaboration. / Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector. In: Journal of Instrumentation. 2022 ; Vol. 17, No. 5.

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@article{3bd947405901403a87371ac2c46ee74d,

title = "Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector",

abstract = "The centrality of heavy-ion collisions is directly related to the created medium in these interactions. A procedure to determine the centrality of collisions with the LHCb detector is implemented for lead-lead collisions at √s NN = 5 TeV and lead-neon fixed-target collisions at √s NN = 69 GeV. The energy deposits in the electromagnetic calorimeter are used to determine and define the centrality classes. The correspondence between the number of participants and the centrality for the lead-lead collisions is in good agreement with the correspondence found in other experiments, and the centrality measurements for the lead-neon collisions presented here are performed for the first time in fixed-target collisions at the LHC.",

keywords = "Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting methods, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors, Simulation methods and programs",

author = "{The LHCb Collaboration} and R. Aaij and Beteta, {C. Abell{\'a}n} and T. Ackernley and B. Adeva and M. Adinolfi and H. Afsharnia and Aidala, {C. A.} and S. Aiola and Z. Ajaltouni and S. Akar and J. Albrecht and F. Alessio and M. Alexander and Albero, {A. Alfonso} and Z. Aliouche and G. Alkhazov and Cartelle, {P. Alvarez} and S. Amato and Y. Amhis and L. An and L. Anderlini and A. Andreianov and M. Andreotti and F. Archilli and A. Artamonov and M. Artuso and K. Arzymatov and E. Aslanides and M. Atzeni and B. Audurier and S. Bachmann and M. Bachmayer and Back, {J. J.} and S. Baker and Rodriguez, {P. Baladron} and V. Balagura and W. Baldini and Leite, {J. Baptista} and Barlow, {R. J.} and S. Barsuk and W. Barter and M. Bartolini and F. Baryshnikov and A. Bondar and S. Eidelman and P. Krokovny and V. Kudryavtsev and T. Maltsev and L. Shekhtman and V. Vorobyev",

note = "Funding Information: We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MSHE (Russia); MICINN (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE NP and NSF (U.S.A.). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFINHH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and NERSC (U.S.A.). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from ARC and ARDC (Australia); AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Sk odowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); A∗MIDEX, ANR, IPhU and Labex P2IO, and R{\'e}gion Auvergne-Rh{\^o}ne-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Sci. & Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China); RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia); GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society and UKRI (United Kingdom). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration.",

year = "2022",

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volume = "17",

journal = "Journal of Instrumentation",

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RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector

AU - The LHCb Collaboration

AU - Aaij, R.

AU - Beteta, C. Abellán

AU - Ackernley, T.

AU - Adeva, B.

AU - Adinolfi, M.

AU - Afsharnia, H.

AU - Aidala, C. A.

AU - Aiola, S.

AU - Ajaltouni, Z.

AU - Akar, S.

AU - Albrecht, J.

AU - Alessio, F.

AU - Alexander, M.

AU - Albero, A. Alfonso

AU - Aliouche, Z.

AU - Alkhazov, G.

AU - Cartelle, P. Alvarez

AU - Amato, S.

AU - Amhis, Y.

AU - An, L.

AU - Anderlini, L.

AU - Andreianov, A.

AU - Andreotti, M.

AU - Archilli, F.

AU - Artamonov, A.

AU - Artuso, M.

AU - Arzymatov, K.

AU - Aslanides, E.

AU - Atzeni, M.

AU - Audurier, B.

AU - Bachmann, S.

AU - Bachmayer, M.

AU - Back, J. J.

AU - Baker, S.

AU - Rodriguez, P. Baladron

AU - Balagura, V.

AU - Baldini, W.

AU - Leite, J. Baptista

AU - Barlow, R. J.

AU - Barsuk, S.

AU - Barter, W.

AU - Bartolini, M.

AU - Baryshnikov, F.

AU - Bondar, A.

AU - Eidelman, S.

AU - Krokovny, P.

AU - Kudryavtsev, V.

AU - Maltsev, T.

AU - Shekhtman, L.

AU - Vorobyev, V.

N1 - Funding Information: We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MSHE (Russia); MICINN (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE NP and NSF (U.S.A.). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFINHH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and NERSC (U.S.A.). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from ARC and ARDC (Australia); AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Sk odowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); A∗MIDEX, ANR, IPhU and Labex P2IO, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Sci. & Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China); RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia); GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society and UKRI (United Kingdom). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration.

PY - 2022/5/1

Y1 - 2022/5/1

N2 - The centrality of heavy-ion collisions is directly related to the created medium in these interactions. A procedure to determine the centrality of collisions with the LHCb detector is implemented for lead-lead collisions at √s NN = 5 TeV and lead-neon fixed-target collisions at √s NN = 69 GeV. The energy deposits in the electromagnetic calorimeter are used to determine and define the centrality classes. The correspondence between the number of participants and the centrality for the lead-lead collisions is in good agreement with the correspondence found in other experiments, and the centrality measurements for the lead-neon collisions presented here are performed for the first time in fixed-target collisions at the LHC.

AB - The centrality of heavy-ion collisions is directly related to the created medium in these interactions. A procedure to determine the centrality of collisions with the LHCb detector is implemented for lead-lead collisions at √s NN = 5 TeV and lead-neon fixed-target collisions at √s NN = 69 GeV. The energy deposits in the electromagnetic calorimeter are used to determine and define the centrality classes. The correspondence between the number of participants and the centrality for the lead-lead collisions is in good agreement with the correspondence found in other experiments, and the centrality measurements for the lead-neon collisions presented here are performed for the first time in fixed-target collisions at the LHC.

KW - Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting methods

KW - Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors

KW - Simulation methods and programs

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VL - 17

JO - Journal of Instrumentation

JF - Journal of Instrumentation

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