Title
Anisotropic Flow of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV
Date Issued
01 April 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.
Belyaev V.
Benacek P.
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 first results of elliptic (v2), triangular (v3), and quadrangular (v4) flow of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of sNN=5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurements are performed in the central pseudorapidity region |η|<0.8 and for the transverse momentum range 0.2<pT<5 GeV/c. The anisotropic flow is measured using two-particle correlations with a pseudorapidity gap greater than one unit and with the multiparticle cumulant method. Compared to results from Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV, the anisotropic flow coefficients v2, v3, and v4 are found to increase by (3.0±0.6)%, (4.3±1.4)%, and (10.2±3.8)%, respectively, in the centrality range 0%-50%. This increase can be attributed mostly to an increase of the average transverse momentum between the two energies. The measurements are found to be compatible with hydrodynamic model calculations. This comparison provides a unique opportunity to test the validity of the hydrodynamic picture and the power to further discriminate between various possibilities for the temperature dependence of shear viscosity to entropy density ratio of the produced matter in heavy-ion collisions at the highest energies.
Volume
116
Issue
13
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química
Ingeniería química
Química física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84963641155
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
0031-9007
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation 1305280, 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 STF
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 15H03664, 25287048, 26220707, 26610071 JSPS
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