Higher Harmonic Anisotropic Flow Measurements of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

K. Aamodt...[et al.]; Ian Bearden; Hans Bøggild; Christian Holm Christensen; Kristjan Herlache Gulbrandsen; Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje; Hans Hjersing Dalsgaard; Børge Svane Nielsen; Carsten Søgaard; Casper Nygaard

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.032301

Higher Harmonic Anisotropic Flow Measurements of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

K. Aamodt...[et al.], Ian Bearden, Hans Bøggild, Christian Holm Christensen, Kristjan Herlache Gulbrandsen, Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, Hans Hjersing Dalsgaard, Børge Svane Nielsen, Carsten Søgaard, Casper Nygaard

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We report on the first measurement of the triangular v₃, quadrangular v₄, and pentagonal v₅ charged particle flow in Pb-Pb collisions at √s_NN=2.76TeV measured with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We show that the triangular flow can be described in terms of the initial spatial anisotropy and its fluctuations, which provides strong constraints on its origin. In the most central events, where the elliptic flow v₂ and v₃ have similar magnitude, a double peaked structure in the two-particle azimuthal correlations is observed, which is often interpreted as a Mach cone response to fast partons. We show that this structure can be naturally explained from the measured anisotropic flow Fourier coefficients.

Original language	English
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	107
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	032301
ISSN	0031-9007
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.032301
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2011

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Aamodt...[et al.], K., Bearden, I., Bøggild, H., Christensen, C. H., Gulbrandsen, K. H., Gaardhøje, J. J., Dalsgaard, H. H., Nielsen, B. S., Søgaard, C., & Nygaard, C. (2011). Higher Harmonic Anisotropic Flow Measurements of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV. Physical Review Letters, 107(3), 032301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.032301

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Higher Harmonic Anisotropic Flow Measurements of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

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