Title
Flow Dominance and Factorization of Transverse Momentum Correlations in Pb-Pb Collisions at the LHC
Date Issued
21 April 2017
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.
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.
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 measurement of the two-particle transverse momentum differential correlation function, P2≡ ΔpTΔpT/ pT2, in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV. Results for P2 are reported as a function of the relative pseudorapidity (Δη) and azimuthal angle (Δφ) between two particles for different collision centralities. The Δφ dependence is found to be largely independent of Δη for |Δη|≥0.9. In the 5% most central Pb-Pb collisions, the two-particle transverse momentum correlation function exhibits a clear double-hump structure around Δφ=π (i.e., on the away side), which is not observed in number correlations in the same centrality range, and thus provides an indication of the dominance of triangular flow in this collision centrality. Fourier decompositions of P2, studied as a function of the collision centrality, show that correlations at |Δη|≥0.9 can be well reproduced by a flow ansatz based on the notion that measured transverse momentum correlations are strictly determined by the collective motion of the system.
Volume
118
Issue
16
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85018468686
PubMed ID
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation 1307461 Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 665779 Science and Technology Facilities Council 1657698, 2014 STFC Nuclear Physics CG, 2017 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 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 15H03664, 17H01122
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