Report number
| ATL-PHYS-SLIDE-2018-261 |
Title
| Measurement of
the azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles
in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and 5.44 TeV Xe+Xe collisions
with ATLAS |
Author(s)
| Bold, Tomasz (AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Krakow) |
Corporate author(s)
| The ATLAS collaboration |
Collaboration
| ATLAS Collaboration |
Submitted to
| The 27th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Venice, Italy, 13 - 19 May 2018 |
Submitted by
| tomasz.bold@gmail.com on 21 May 2018 |
Subject category
| Particle Physics - Experiment |
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment
| CERN LHC ; ATLAS |
Free keywords
| flow ; flow correlations ; Xe+Xe collisions ; HEAVYIONS |
Abstract
| The experimental data collected by the ATLAS experiment during the 2015 Pb+Pb and 2017 Xe+Xe LHC runs offer new opportunities to study charged particle azimuthal anisotropy. The high-statistics Pb+Pb sample allows for a detailed study of the azimuthal anisotropy of produced particles. This should improve the understanding of initial conditions of nuclear collisions, hydrodynamical behavior of quark-gluon plasma and parton energy loss. New ATLAS measurements of differential and global Fourier harmonics of charged particles (vn) in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and 5.44 TeV Xe+Xe collisions in a wide range of transverse momenta, pseudorapidity (|η|<2.5) and collision centrality are presented. The higher order harmonics, sensitive to fluctuations in the initial state, are measured up to n=7 using the two-particle correlation, cumulant and scalar product methods. The dynamic properties of QGP are studied using a recently-proposed modified Pearson's correlation coefficient, ρ(v2n,pT), between the eventwise mean transverse momentum and the magnitude of the flow vector in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and p+Pb collisions. Several important observations are made. The elliptic and triangular flow harmonics show an interesting universal pT-scaling. A linear correlation between the v2 and v3 coefficients at low and high pT ranges is observed and quantified. The Pearson's correlation coefficient ρ(v22) is found to be negative in peripheral and positive in central Pb+Pb collisions. The value of ρ(v23) is found to be much smaller than ρ(v22) and to have similar centrality behavior as ρ(v22). |