Title
Harmonic decomposition of two particle angular correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76TeV
Date Issued
28 February 2012
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Aamodt K.
Abelev B.
Abrahantes Quintana A.
Adamová D.
Adare A.M.
Aggarwal M.M.
Aglieri Rinella G.
Agocs A.G.
Agostinelli A.
Aguilar Salazar S.
Ahammed Z.
Ahmad N.
Ahmad Masoodi A.
Ahn S.U.
Akindinov A.
Aleksandrov D.
Alessandro B.
Alfaro Molina R.
Alici A.
Alkin A.
Almaráz Aviña E.
Alme J.
Alt T.
Altini V.
Altinpinar S.
Altsybeev I.
Andrei C.
Andronic A.
Anguelov V.
Anielski J.
Antičić T.
Antinori F.
Antonioli P.
Aphecetche L.
Appelshäuser H.
Arbor N.
Arcelli S.
Arend A.
Armesto N.
Arnaldi R.
Aronsson T.
Arsene I.C.
Arslandok M.
Asryan A.
Augustinus A.
Averbeck R.
Awes T.C.
Äystö J.
Azmi M.D.
Bach M.
Badalà A.
Baek Y.W.
Bailhache R.
Bala R.
Baldini Ferroli R.
Baldisseri A.
Baldit A.
Baltasar dos Santos Pedrosa F.
Bán J.
Baral R.C.
Barbera R.
Barile F.
Barnaföldi G.G.
Barnby L.S.
Barret V.
Bartke J.
Basile M.
Bastid N.
Bathen B.
Batigne G.
Batyunya B.
Baumann C.
Bearden I.G.
Beck H.
Belikov I.
Bellini F.
Bellwied R.
Belmont-Moreno E.
Beole S.
Berceanu I.
Bercuci A.
Berdnikov Y.
Berenyi D.
Bergmann C.
Betev L.
Bhasin A.
Bhati A.K.
Bianchi L.
Bianchi N.
Bianchin C.
Bielčík J.
Bielčíková J.
Bilandzic A.
Biolcati E.
Blanco F.
Blanco F.
Blau D.
Blume C.
Bock N.
Bogdanov A.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier
Abstract
Angular correlations between unidentified charged trigger (t) and associated (a) particles are measured by the ALICE experiment in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76TeV for transverse momenta 0.25<pTt,a<15GeV/c, where pTt>pTa. The shapes of the pair correlation distributions are studied in a variety of collision centrality classes between 0 and 50% of the total hadronic cross section for particles in the pseudorapidity interval |η|<1.0. Distributions in relative azimuth δφ≡φt-φa are analyzed for |δη|≡|ηt-ηa|>0.8, and are referred to as "long-range correlations". Fourier components Vnδ≡〈cos(nδφ)〉 are extracted from the long-range azimuthal correlation functions. If particle pairs are correlated to one another through their individual correlation to a common symmetry plane, then the pair anisotropy Vnδ(pTt,pTa) is fully described in terms of single-particle anisotropies vn(pT) as Vnδ(pTt,pTa)=vn(pTt)vn(pTa). This expectation is tested for 1≤n≤5 by applying a global fit of all Vnδ(pTt,pTa) to obtain the best values vn{GF}(pT). It is found that for 2≤n≤5, the fit agrees well with data up to pTa~3-4GeV/c, with a trend of increasing deviation as pTt and pTa are increased or as collisions become more peripheral. This suggests that no pair correlation harmonic can be described over the full 0.25<pT<15GeV/c range using a single vn(pT) curve; such a description is however approximately possible for 2≤n≤5 when pTa<4GeV/c. For the n=1 harmonic, however, a single v1(pT) curve is not obtained even within the reduced range pTa<4GeV/c. © 2012 CERN.
Start page
249
End page
264
Volume
708
Issue
May 3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84863115572
Source
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ISSN of the container
03702693
Sponsor(s)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) , the Chinese Ministry of Education (CMOE) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MSTC) The United States Department of Energy , the United States National Science Foundation , the State of Texas , and the State of Ohio Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) , Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP) , Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Danish Natural Science Research Council , the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish National Research Foundation
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