Title
Transverse momentum spectra and nuclear modification factors of charged particles in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC
Date Issued
01 November 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Acharya S.
Acosta F.T.
Adamová D.
Adolfsson J.
Aggarwal M.M.
Aglieri Rinella G.
Agnello M.
Agrawal N.
Ahammed Z.
Ahn S.U.
Aiola S.
Akindinov A.
Al-Turany M.
Alam S.N.
Albuquerque D.S.D.
Aleksandrov D.
Alessandro B.
Alfaro Molina R.
Ali Y.
Alici A.
Alkin A.
Alme J.
Alt T.
Altenkamper L.
Altsybeev I.
Andrei C.
Andreou D.
Andrews H.A.
Andronic A.
Angeletti M.
Anguelov V.
Anson C.
Antičić T.
Antinori F.
Antonioli P.
Apadula N.
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.
Bartsch E.
Bastid N.
Basu S.
Batigne G.
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.
Bhaduri P.P.
Bhasin A.
Bhat I.R.
Bhattacharjee B.
Bhom J.
Bianchi A.
Bianchi L.
Bianchi N.
Bielčík J.
Bielčíková J.
Bilandzic A.
Bose Institute
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
We report the measured transverse momentum (pT) spectra of primary charged particles from pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy sNN=5.02 TeV in the kinematic range of 0.15 < pT< 50 GeV/c and |η| < 0.8. A significant improvement of systematic uncertainties motivated the reanalysis of data in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV, as well as in p-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV, which is also presented. Spectra from Pb-Pb collisions are presented in nine centrality intervals and are compared to a reference spectrum from pp collisions scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. For central collisions, the pT spectra are suppressed by more than a factor of 7 around 6–7 GeV/c with a significant reduction in suppression towards higher momenta up to 30 GeV/c. The nuclear modification factor RpPb, constructed from the pp and p-Pb spectra measured at the same collision energy, is consistent with unity above 8 GeV/c. While the spectra in both pp and Pb-Pb collisions are substantially harder at sNN=5.02 TeV compared to 2.76 TeV, the nuclear modification factors show no significant collision energy dependence. The obtained results should provide further constraints on the parton energy loss calculations to determine the transport properties of the hot and dense QCD matter.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Volume
2018
Issue
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85056258196
Source
Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN of the container
11266708
Sponsor(s)
The ALICE collaboration would like to thank all its engineers and technicians for their invaluable contributions to the construction of the experiment and the CERN accelerator teams for the outstanding performance of the LHC complex. The ALICE collaboration gratefully acknowledges the resources and support provided by all Grid centres and the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) collaboration. The ALICE collaboration acknowledges the following funding agencies for their support in building and running the ALICE detector: A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation (ANSL), State Committee of Science and World Federation of Scientists (WFS), Armenia; Austrian Academy of Sciences and Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Tech-nologie und Entwicklung, Austria; Ministry of Communications and High Technologies, National Nuclear Research Center, Azerbaijan; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Finep) and Fundacão de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil; Ministry of Science & Technology of China (MSTC), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Ministry of Education of China (MOEC) , China; Ministry of Science, Education and Sport and Croatian Science Foundation, Croatia; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic; The Danish Council for Independent Research — Natural Sciences, the Carls-berg Foundation and Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), Denmark; Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Finland; Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) and In-stitut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France; Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwe-rionenforschung GmbH, Germany; General Secretariat for Research and Technology.
Open Access, Copyright CERN, for the benefit of the ALICE Collaboration. Article funded by SCOAP3.
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