Title
Azimuthally Differential Pion Femtoscopy in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =2.76 TeV
Date Issued
02 June 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Adamová D.
Aggarwal M.M.
Aglieri Rinella G.
Agnello M.
Agrawal N.
Ahammed Z.
Ahmad S.
Ahn S.U.
Aiola S.
Akindinov A.
Alam S.N.
Albuquerque D.S.D.
Aleksandrov D.
Alessandro B.
Alexandre D.
Alfaro Molina R.
Alici A.
Alkin A.
Alme J.
Alt T.
Altinpinar S.
Altsybeev I.
Alves Garcia Prado C.
An M.
Andrei C.
Andrews H.A.
Andronic A.
Anguelov V.
Anson C.
Antičić T.
Antinori F.
Antonioli P.
Anwar R.
Aphecetche L.
Appelshäuser H.
Arcelli S.
Arnaldi R.
Arnold O.W.
Arsene I.C.
Arslandok M.
Audurier B.
Augustinus A.
Averbeck R.
Azmi M.D.
Badalà A.
Baek Y.W.
Bagnasco S.
Bailhache R.
Bala R.
Baldisseri A.
Ball M.
Baral R.C.
Barbano A.M.
Barbera R.
Barile F.
Barioglio L.
Barnaföldi G.G.
Barnby L.S.
Barret V.
Bartalini P.
Barth K.
Bartke J.
Bartsch E.
Basile M.
Bastid N.
Basu S.
Bathen B.
Batigne G.
Batista Camejo A.
Batyunya B.
Batzing P.C.
Bearden I.G.
Beck H.
Bedda C.
Behera N.K.
Belikov I.
Bellini F.
Bello Martinez H.
Bellwied R.
Beltran L.G.E.
Belyaev V.
Bencedi G.
Beole S.
Bercuci A.
Berdnikov Y.
Berenyi D.
Bertens R.A.
Berzano D.
Betev L.
Bhasin A.
Bhat I.R.
Bhati A.K.
Bhattacharjee B.
Bhom J.
Bianchi L.
Bianchi N.
Bianchin C.
Bielčík J.
Bielčíková J.
Bilandzic A.
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
We present the first azimuthally differential measurements of the pion source size relative to the second harmonic event plane in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon pair of sNN=2.76 TeV. The measurements have been performed in the centrality range 0%-50% and for pion pair transverse momenta 0.2<kT<0.7 GeV/c. We find that the Rside and Rout radii, which characterize the pion source size in the directions perpendicular and parallel to the pion transverse momentum, oscillate out of phase, similar to what was observed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The final-state source eccentricity, estimated via Rside oscillations, is found to be significantly smaller than the initial-state source eccentricity, but remains positive - indicating that even after a stronger expansion in the in-plane direction, the pion source at the freeze-out is still elongated in the out-of-plane direction. The 3+1D hydrodynamic calculations are in qualitative agreement with observed centrality and transverse momentum Rside oscillations, but systematically underestimate the oscillation magnitude.
Volume
118
Issue
22
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería, Tecnología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85020383731
PubMed ID
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
Sponsor(s)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - 17H01122 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - 15H03664 Science and Technology Facilities Council - 1657698 Science and Technology Facilities Council - 2014 STFC Nuclear Physics CG Science and Technology Facilities Council - 2017 STFC Nuclear Physics CG Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/J000108/1 Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/L005670/1 Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/L005751/1 Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/M00158X/1 Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/M001601/1 Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/M00340X/1 Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/N00261X/1 Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/M001598/1 National Science Foundation - 1307461 ALICE ST/P004598/1 ST/P005438/1
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