The dependence of Bose-Einstein Correlations on energy, multiplicity and hadronic jets

TL;DR

This paper investigates how Bose-Einstein correlations in proton-proton collisions depend on energy, multiplicity, and jets, proposing a method to estimate jet numbers from correlation measurements without specific jet algorithms.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to estimate the average number of hadronic jets from Bose-Einstein correlation data, bypassing the need for jet-finding algorithms.

Findings

R_1D increases with energy due to more hadronic jets.

Measurement of R_1D and λ can estimate jet multiplicity.

Method allows phase space-wide jet estimation without specific algorithms.

Abstract

The dependence of the one dimensional Bose-Einstein correlation R_1D derived from proton-proton collisions is examined in terms of energy, hadron multiplicity and number of emerging hadronic jets. It is argued that the observed rise of R_1D with energy is the result of the increase of the average number of hadronic jets. It is further shown that by the relative straightforward measurements of R_1D and its chaoticity parameter $\lambda$ one should be able to estimate the average number of outgoing hadronic jets emitted over the entire final state phase space without the necessity to rely on a particular jet finding algorithm and its associated parameters.