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Title	Anisotropic flow and related phenomena in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{{s}_{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with ALICE
Author(s)	Margutti, Jacopo (Utrecht U.)
Collaboration	ALICE
Publication	SISSA, 2016
Number of pages	5
In:	PoS ICHEP2016 (2016) 354
In:	38th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Chicago, IL, USA, 03 - 10 Aug 2016, pp.354
DOI	10.22323/1.282.0354
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment ; Nuclear Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ALICE
Abstract	ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is designed and optimised to study the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a new state of matter, which is expected to be created at the high energy densities reached at the LHC. One of the key observables used to characterize the proper- ties of the QGP is the azimuthal anisotropy in particle production. This so-called anisotropic flow is sensitive to the transport properties and equation of state of the QGP. In this presentation, we report the first measurements of anisotropic flow in Pb–Pb collisions at √ s NN = 5 . 02 TeV with ALICE and compare them with both theoretical predictions and experimental measurements at lower energies and other collision systems. This provides a unique opportunity to test the validity of the hydrodynamic paradigm and to further constraint the key transport parameters of the QGP.
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