Title
Correlated Event-by-Event Fluctuations of Flow Harmonics in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =2.76 TeV
Date Issued
28 October 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Adam J.
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.
Almaraz J.R.M.
Alme J.
Alt T.
Altinpinar S.
Altsybeev I.
Alves Garcia Prado C.
Andrei C.
Andronic A.
Anguelov V.
Antičić T.
Antinori F.
Antonioli P.
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.
Balasubramanian S.
Baldisseri A.
Baral R.C.
Barbano A.M.
Barbera R.
Barile F.
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.
Belmont R.
Belmont-Moreno E.
Beltran L.G.E.
Belyaev V.
Bencedi G.
Beole S.
Berceanu I.
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 report the measurements of correlations between event-by-event fluctuations of amplitudes of anisotropic flow harmonics in nucleus-nucleus collisions, obtained for the first time using a new analysis method based on multiparticle cumulants in mixed harmonics. This novel method is robust against systematic biases originating from nonflow effects and by construction any dependence on symmetry planes is eliminated. We demonstrate that correlations of flow harmonics exhibit a better sensitivity to medium properties than the individual flow harmonics. The new measurements are performed in Pb-Pb collisions at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of sNN=2.76 TeV by the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The centrality dependence of correlation between event-by-event fluctuations of the elliptic v2 and quadrangular v4 flow harmonics, as well as of anticorrelation between v2 and triangular v3 flow harmonics are presented. The results cover two different regimes of the initial state configurations: geometry dominated (in midcentral collisions) and fluctuation dominated (in the most central collisions). Comparisons are made to predictions from Monte Carlo Glauber, viscous hydrodynamics, ampt, and hijing models. Together with the existing measurements of the individual flow harmonics the presented results provide further constraints on the initial conditions and the transport properties of the system produced in heavy-ion collisions.
Volume
117
Issue
18
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física nuclear Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84994607983
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
0031-9007
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation 1307461 NSF Science and Technology Facilities Council 2014 STFC Nuclear Physics CG, ALICE, GRIDPP, ST/J000108/1, ST/L005670/1, ST/L005751/1, ST/M00158X/1, ST/M001598/1, ST/M001601/1, ST/M00340X/1, ST/N00261X/1 STFC Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 15H03664, 25287048, 26610071 JSPS
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