Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector

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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 root s(NN) = 5 TeV and lead-neon fixed-target collisions at root 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.
Original languageEnglish
Article numberP05009
Number of pages31
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume17
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2022

Keywords

  • Pattern recognition
  • cluster finding
  • calibration and fitting methods
  • Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors
  • Simulation methods and programs

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