Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles produced in root s NN=5.02 TeV Pb+ Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, DK Abhayasinghe, S.H. Abidi, Ossama Sherif Alexander Abouzeid, NL Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, Sosuke Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J. Adelman, M. Adersberger, A. Adiguzel, T. Adye, A. A. AffolderY. Afik, C. Agheorghiesei, J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, F. Ahmadov, Milena Bajic, Geert-Jan Besjes, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Peter Henrik Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Mogens Dam, James William Monk, Simon Holm Stark, Fabian A.J. Thiele, Troels Christian Petersen, Graig Wiglesworth, Stefania Xella

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Abstract

Measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy in lead–lead collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV are presented using a data sample corresponding to 0.49 nb - 1 integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015. The recorded minimum-bias sample is enhanced by triggers for “ultra-central” collisions, providing an opportunity to perform detailed study of flow harmonics in the regime where the initial state is dominated by fluctuations. The anisotropy of the charged-particle azimuthal angle distributions is characterized by the Fourier coefficients, v2–v7, which are measured using the two-particle correlation, scalar-product and event-plane methods. The goal of the paper is to provide measurements of the differential as well as integrated flow harmonics vn over wide ranges of the transverse momentum, 0.5 < pT< 60 GeV, the pseudorapidity, | η| < 2.5, and the collision centrality 0–80%. Results from different methods are compared and discussed in the context of previous and recent measurements in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN = 2.76 TeV and 5.02 TeV. In particular, the shape of the pTdependence of elliptic or triangular flow harmonics is observed to be very similar at different centralities after scaling the vn and pTvalues by constant factors over the centrality interval 0–60% and the pTrange 0.5 < pT< 5 GeV.

Original languageEnglish
Article number997
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume78
Issue number12
Number of pages35
ISSN1434-6044
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2018

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