Charm multiplicity distribution in high energy pp collisions with PYTHIA

TL;DR

This study uses PYTHIA-8 simulations to analyze charm particle multiplicity distributions in high-energy proton-proton collisions at the LHC, exploring effects of multiple parton interactions and testing scaling hypotheses.

Contribution

It provides detailed charm multiplicity distributions across various energies and pseudorapidity ranges, and evaluates the validity of the quark-hadron duality and KNO scaling in these contexts.

Findings

Charm multiplicity distributions vary with energy and pseudorapidity.

Quark-hadron duality hypothesis is satisfied in the simulations.

Poisson and negative binomial distributions effectively parameterize charm multiplicities.

Abstract

With the growth of statistics in the future experiments at the LHC, the number of events with charm production will increase substantially. It may become possible to measure the multiplicity distribution of charm particles. Using PYTHIA-8, we generated charm multiplicity distributions in $pp$ collisions for different pseudorapidity ranges ($|\eta| < 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0$) and center-of-mass energies ($\sqrt{s}=$ 0.9, 2.36, 2.76, 7.0, 8.0, 13.0 TeV). We investigated the role played by multiple parton interactions and color reconnection. We compared the multiplicity distribution of D mesons with the charm quark multiplicity distribution. We observe that the "quark-hadron" duality hypothesis is satisfied. With the obtained distributions we tested the validity of the Koba-Nielsen-Olesen scaling. We also parameterized the charm distributions considering the Poisson and negative binomial distributions.