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Strange Hadrons in Underlying-Events as Measured in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV by the ATLAS Detector at LHC

by Fares Djama on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Farès Djama
Submission information
Preprint Link: scipost_202410_00068v1  (pdf)
Date accepted: Nov. 10, 2025
Date submitted: Oct. 31, 2024, 5:51 p.m.
Submitted by: Farès Djama
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Proceedings
Proceedings issue: 22nd International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2024)
Ontological classification
Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Experiment
Approach: Experimental

Abstract

Recent measurements of distributions sensitive to the underlying-event, the hadronic activity observed in relationship with the hard scattering in the event, by the ATLAS experiment are presented. Used data were recorded during the LHC collider Run II at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV. Average particle multiplicity are measured for K0 mesons and Lambda baryons as a function of the leading track-jet transverse momentum and total underlying event multiplicity, and are compared to Monte Carlo simulation predictions which in general fail to describe the data.

Current status:
Accepted in target Journal

Editorial decision: For Journal SciPost Physics Proceedings: Publish
(status: Editorial decision fixed and (if required) accepted by authors)


Reports on this Submission

Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 1) on 2025-10-22 (Invited Report)

Strengths

This manuscript describes productions of strangeness particles in under-lying events, including the forward region of ATLAS at 13 TeV pp collisions with a special low luminosity operation of LHC. Strange particles in the high-energy air showers are relevant to atmospheric lepton components. However, it is poorly known both experimentally and theoretically at the LHC energy, and thus, this measurement is unique and important.

Weaknesses

It may be improved to include more description for how much impact of this measurement on cosmic ray physics in the Introduction section, as this manuscript is for ISVHECRI proceedings, where high-energy cosmic ray interactions matter.

Report

This manuscript describes productions of strangeness particles in under-lying events including the forward region of ATLAS at 13 TeV pp collisions with a special low luminosity operation of LHC. Strange particles in the high energy air showers are relevant to atmospheric lepton components. However, it is poorly known both experimentally and theoretically at the LHC energy, and thus this measurement is unique and important. Manuscript is well-written with plots taken from already accepted for journal publication. Throughout the manuscript, no typo seems to be found. Therefore, I recommend approving this without any modification. It may be improved readability for the readers to include more description in the introduction section for how much impact on the cosmic ray physics as this manuscript is for ISVHECRI proceedings where high-energy cosmic ray interaction is the subject.

Requested changes

No change is mandatory for acceptance.

Recommendation

Publish (surpasses expectations and criteria for this Journal; among top 10%)

  • validity: top
  • significance: high
  • originality: high
  • clarity: high
  • formatting: excellent
  • grammar: perfect

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