A measurement of the underlying event (UE) activity in proton-proton collisions is performed using events with charged-particle jets produced in the central pseudorapidity region).

This thesis addresses in a very new and elegant way several measurements and the extraction of so-called double parton scattering. The new and elegant way lies in the combination of measurements and a very smart extraction of double parton scattering results, which is easy to apply and overcomes many of the technical difficulties of older methods. Many new phenomena in particle physics can be observed when particles are collided at the highest energies; one of the highlights in recent years was the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Understanding the production mechanism of the Higgs boson at the LHC requires detailed knowledge of the physics of proton-proton collisions. When the density of partons in the protons becomes large, there is a non-negligible probability that more than one parton participates in the interaction and the so-called double parton scattering becomes important. In some cases very particular final state signatures can be observed, which can be regarded as an indication of such double partonic scattering and where the different interactions can be separated. Such multiple partonic interactions play an important role when precise predictions from known processes are required.

Measurements are presented of the production of primary K(S)0 and Lambda particles in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in the region transverse to the leading charged-particle jet in each event. The average multiplicity and average scalar transverse momentum sum of K(S)0 and Lambda particles measured at pseudorapidities abs(eta)

A measurement of the activity accompanying the hard collision is performed in proton-proton collisions at two center of mass energies of 0.9 TeV and 7 TeV at CMS. The direction of the track with the highest transverse momentum is used to divide the azimuthal plane to three regions: ... Toward ... Away ..., and ... Transverse ... The data are corrected to the hadronic level and compared with two Monte-Carlo Generator tunes. The results are compared with other experiments at the LHC and the Tevatron. These results can be used to add further constrains on the Monte-Carlo generators used to simulate these collisions. It will also enable us to give better predictions for hadronic collisions at the higher energies the LHC is planning to reach in the future.

This book mainly focuses on the study of photon + 3 jets final state in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 7TeV, searching for patterns of two (or more) distinct hard scatterings in the same collision, i.e the so-called Double Parton Scattering (DPS). A new method by using Monte Carlo generators was performed and provides higher order corrections to the description of the Single Parton Scattering (SPS) background. Further it is investigated whether additional contributions from DPS can improve the agreement between the measured data and the Monte Carlo predictions. The current theoretical uncertainties related to the SPS background are found to be larger than expectation. At the same time a rich set of DPS-sensitive measurements is reported for possible further interpretation.

As one of the major mid-rapidity tracking devices of the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC), the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) plays an important role in measuring trajectory and energy of high energy charged particles in polarized proton-proton collision experiments. TPC's in-jet tracking efficiency represents the largest systematic uncertainty on jet energy scale at high transverse momentum, whose measurement contributes to the understanding of the spin structure of protons. The objective of this analysis is to get a better estimation of this systematic uncertainty, through methods of pure Monte-Carlo simulation and real- data embedding, in which simulated tracks are embedded into real-data events. Be- sides, simulated tracks are also embedded into Monte-Carlo events, to make a strict comparison for the uncertainty estimation. The result indicates that the unexplained part of the systematic uncertainty is reduced to 3.3%, from a previous quoted value of 5%. This analysis also suggests that future analysis, such as embedding jets into zero-bias real data and analysis with much higher event statistics, will benefit the understanding of the systematic uncertainty of the in-jet TPC tracking efficiency.

A measurement of the underlying event activity is performed for proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV using the Compact Muon Solenoid detector. The azimuthal angle of the highest transverse-momentum track is used to split the azimuthal plane into three regions of equal area: Toward, Away, and Transverse. The Transverse region is further subdivided into a region of maximal activity and a region of minimal activity. The activity is quantified by the number of tracks and the sum of their transverse momenta in each region. Comparisons are made with previous results obtained at 0.3, 0.9, 1.96, and 7 TeV. These combined results can be used to refine and improve Monte Carlo predictions of the underlying event activity at current and higher energies which will lead to the improved modelling of proton-proton collisions leading to more precise measurements at the Large Hadron Collider.

The number of charged particles inside jets is a widely used discriminant for identifying the quark or gluon nature of the initiating parton and is sensitive to both the perturbative and non-perturbative components of fragmentation. This paper presents a measurement of the average number of charged particles with pT > 500 MeV inside high-momentum jets in dijet events using 20.3 fb-1 of data recorded with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV collisions at the LHC. The jets considered have transverse momenta from 50 GeV up to and beyond 1.5 TeV . The reconstructed charged-particle track multiplicity distribution is unfolded to remove distortions from detector effects and the resulting charged-particle multiplicity is compared to several models. Lastly, quark and gluon jet fractions are used to extract the average charged-particle multiplicity for quark and gluon jets separately.

The per-event yield of the highest transverse momentum charged particle and charged-particle jet, integrated above a given pminT threshold starting at pminT=0.8 and 1 GeV, respectively, is studied in pp collisions at s√=8 TeV. Furthermore, the particles and the jets are measured in the pseudorapidity ranges.