Pseudorapidity dependence of the anisotropic flow of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

J. Adam, D. Adamova, M.M. Aggarwal, G.A. Rinella, Maria Agnello, N. Agrawal, Z. Ahammed, Shamim Ahmad, S. U. Ahn, S. Aiola, Ian Bearden, Hans Bøggild, Christian Holm Christensen, Kristjan Herlache Gulbrandsen, Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, Hans Hjersing Dalsgaard, Børge Svane Nielsen, Alexander Colliander Hansen, Ante Bilandzic, Marek ChojnackiValentina Zaccolo, You Zhou, Christian Alexander Bourjau

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Abstract

We present measurements of the elliptic (v2), triangular (v3) and quadrangular (v4) anisotropic azimuthal flow over a wide range of pseudorapidities (−3.5<η<5). The measurements are performed with Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV using the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The flow harmonics are obtained using two- and four-particle correlations from nine different centrality intervals covering central to peripheral collisions. We find that the shape of vn(η) is largely independent of centrality for the flow harmonics n=2–4, however the higher harmonics fall off more steeply with increasing |η|. We assess the validity of extended longitudinal scaling of v2 by comparing to lower energy measurements, and find that the higher harmonic flow coefficients are proportional to the charged particle densities at larger pseudorapidities. Finally, we compare our measurements to both hydrodynamical and transport models, and find they both have challenges when it comes to describing our data.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftPhysics Letters B
Vol/bind762
Sider (fra-til)376-388
ISSN0370-2693
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 10 nov. 2016

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