Study of Hadronic Event-Shape Variables in Multijet Final States in pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV

CERN-LHC. Event-shape variables, which are sensitive to perturbative and nonperturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamic (QCD) interactions, are studied in multijet events recorded in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV. Events are selected with at least one jet with transverse momentum $p_T > 110$ GeV and pseudorapidity $\mid\eta\mid < 2.4$, in a data sample corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to $5 fb^{-1}$. The distributions of five event-shape variables in various leading jet $p_T$ ranges are compared to predictions from different QCD Monte Carlo event generators. Five event-shape variables are analyzed in this paper: the transverse thrust $\tau_{\perp}$, the total jet broadening $B_{tot}$, the total jet mass $\rho_{tot}$, the total transverse jet mass $\rho^T_{tot}$ and the third-jet resolution parameter $Y_{23}$. In the formulae below, $p_{T,i}$, $\eta_i$, and $\phi_i$ represent the transverse momentum, pseudorapidity, and azimuthal angle of the $i$th jet, and $\hat{n}_{T}$ is the unit vector that maximizes the sum of the projections of $\vec{p}_{T,i}$. The transverse thrust axis $\hat{n}_{T}$ and the beam form the so-called event plane. Based on the direction of $\hat{n}_{T}$, the transverse region is separated into an upper side $\cal{C}_U$, consisting of all jets with $\vec{p}_{T}\cdot\hat{n}_{T}$ $>$ 0, and a lower side $\cal{C}_L$, with $\vec{p}_{T}\cdot\hat{n}_{T}$ $