Parton rescattering effect on particle production in ultra-relativistic p+p collisions

TL;DR

This study investigates how parton rescattering influences charged particle production in ultra-relativistic proton-proton collisions, showing that rescattering effects grow with energy and improve agreement with experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces the PACIAE model incorporating parton rescattering and demonstrates its significance in accurately predicting particle production at high energies.

Findings

Parton rescattering significantly affects charged particle yields.

Rescattering effects increase with collision energy.

Model results align well with experimental data.

Abstract

The parton rescattering effect on the charged particle production in ultra-relativistic p+p collisions is studied by the parton and hadron cascade model, PACIAE, based on PYTHIA. We have calculated charged particle pseudorapidity density ($dN_{ch}/d\eta$) at mid-rapidity and the pseudorapidity distribution in inelastic and non-single diffractive p+p collisions at $\sqrt s$=200, 900, 5500, and 14000 GeV with the PYTHIA and PACIAE models. The calculated results of $\sqrt s$=900 GeV are well compared with the ALICE data. The calculated $dN_{ch}/d\eta$ as a function of center-of-mass energy well meets with the experimental data as well. Comparing the PYTHIA results (without parton rescattering) with the PACIAE results (with parton rescattering), it turned out that the parton rescattering effect plays an important role and this effect increases with increasing center-of-mass energy.