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Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and 5.44 TeV Xe+Xe collisions with ATLAS

Bold, T; Aaboud, M; Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdinov, O; Abeloos, B; Abhayasinghe, DK; ... Zwalinski, L; + view all (2019) Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and 5.44 TeV Xe+Xe collisions with ATLAS. Nuclear Physics A , 982 pp. 391-394. 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.09.045. Green open access

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Abstract

The data collected by the ATLAS experiment during the 2015 Pb+Pb and 2017 Xe+Xe LHC runs offer new opportunities to study charged particle azimuthal anisotropy. The high-statistics Pb+Pb sample allows for a detailed study of the azimuthal anisotropy of produced particles. This should improve the understanding of initial conditions of nuclear collisions, hydrodynamical behavior of quark-gluon plasma and parton energy loss. New ATLAS measurements of differential and global Fourier harmonics of charged particles (νn) in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and 5.44 TeV Xe+Xe collisions in a wide range of transverse momenta, pseudorapidity (|η| < 2.5) and collision centrality are presented. The higher order harmonics, sensitive to fluctuations in the initial state, are measured up to n = 7 using the two-particle correlation, cumulant and scalar product methods. The dynamic properties of QGP are studied using a recently-proposed modified Pearson's correlation coefficient, , between the event-wise mean transverse momentum and the magnitude of the flow vector in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and p+Pb collisions. Several important observations are made. The elliptic and triangular flow harmonics show an interesting universal pT-scaling. A linear correlation between the ν2 and ν3 coefficients at low and high pT ranges is observed and quantified. The correlation coefficient for ν2 is found to be negative in peripheral and positive in central Pb+Pb collisions. The value for ν3 is found to be much smaller than for ν2 and have similar centrality behavior as the ν2.

Type: Article
Title: Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and 5.44 TeV Xe+Xe collisions with ATLAS
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.09.045
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.09.045
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V. www.elsevier.com/locate/nuclphysa https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.09.045 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Keywords: heavy-ion, correlations, flow, collectivity, Pb+Pb, Xe+Xe
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10069358
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