Measurement of the sensitivity of two-particle correlations in pp collisions to the presence of hard scatterings with the ATLAS detector
P. Balek*
on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
December 15, 2025
Published on:
January 28, 2026
Abstract
A key open question in the study of multi-particle production in high-energy \pp collisions is the relationship between the "ridge" - observed azimuthal correlations between particles in the underlying event that extend over all rapidities - and hard or semi-hard scattering processes. In particular, it is not known whether jets or their soft fragments are correlated with particles in the underlying event. These proceedings present ATLAS measurements of two-particle correlations in collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$TeV with two different particle-pair selections. In the first selection, charged particles associated with jets are excluded from the correlation analysis. The result of this measurement shows that excluding charged particles associated with jets does not affect the measured correlations. In the second selection, correlations are measured between particles within jets and charged particles from the underlying event. Particles associated with jets do not exhibit any significant azimuthal correlations with the underlying event, ruling out hard processes contributing to the ridge.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.512.0039
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