Looking into Particle Production at the Large Hadron Collider

Abstract

Lightly triggered events may yield surprises about the nature of "soft" particle production at LHC energies. I suggest that event displays in coordinates matched to the dynamics of particle production (rapidity and transverse momentum) may help sharpen intuition, identify interesting classes of events, and test expectations about the underlying event that accompanies hard-scattering phenomena.

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, uses cimento.cls: for Proceedings of the 2010 Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste, La Thuile.