Analysis of the fragmentation function based on ATLAS data on proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV

2016

In high energy particle physics, the collision of two protons leads to quantum interactions through the strong force. This interactions produce highly energetic scattered particles that start to produce more particles forming collimated cones of particles, called jets. The phenomena that produces these jets from the scattered particles is called hadronization, and is explained using the fragmentation function. In this work, the fragmentation functions from with the PYTHIA Monte Carlo event generator and the data from the ATLAS experiment in various jet energy ranges and they were used to study a cascade model proposed by Richard Feymann and Richard Field. I found that PYTHIA is able to repr…