Naslov
Measurement of the elliptic anisotropy of charged particles produced in PbPb collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy = 2.76 TeV

Autori
Chatrchyan, S. ; ... ; Godinović, Nikola ; Lelas, Damir ; Pleština, Roko ; Polić, Dunja ; Puljak, Ivica ; Antunović, Željko ; Dželalija, Mile ; Kovač, Marko ; Brigljević, Vuko ; Đurić, Senka ; Kadija, Krešo ; Luetić, Jelena ; Morović, Srećko ; ... ; Mekterović, Darko ; ... ; Swanson, J.

Kolaboracija
CMS Collaboration

Izvornik
Physical review. C. Nuclear physics (0556-2813) 87 (2013), 1; 014902, 34

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Ključne riječi
CMS ; physics ; heavy ion

Sažetak
He anisotropy of the azimuthal distributions of charged particles produced in sNN−−−√=2.76 TeV PbPb collisions is studied with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The elliptic anisotropy parameter, v2, defined as the second coefficient in a Fourier expansion of the particle invariant yields, is extracted using the event-plane method, two- and four-particle cumulants, and Lee-Yang zeros. The anisotropy is presented as a function of transverse momentum (pT), pseudorapidity (η) over a broad kinematic range, 0.3<pT<20 GeV/c, |η|<2.4, and in 12 classes of collision centrality from 0 to 80%. The results are compared to those obtained at lower center-of-mass energies, and various scaling behaviors are examined. When scaled by the geometric eccentricity of the collision zone, the elliptic anisotropy is found to obey a universal scaling with the transverse particle density for different collision systems and center-of-mass energies.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika

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