Measurement of the distributions of event-by-event flow harmonics in lead-lead collisions at √s[subscript NN] = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
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Taylor, Frank E.
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November 2013
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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The ATLAS collaboration et al. “Measurement of the Distributions of Event-by-Event Flow Harmonics in Lead-Lead Collisions at √s[subscript NN] = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2013.11 (2013): n. pag. © CERN, for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
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The distributions of event-by-event harmonic flow coefficients v [subscript n] for n = 2- 4 are measured in √s[subscript NN] = 2.76 TeV Pb + Pb collisions using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The measurements are performed using charged particles with transverse momentum p [subscript T] > 0.5 GeV and in the pseudorapidity range |η| < 2.5 in a dataset of approximately 7 μb[superscript −1] recorded in 2010. The shapes of the v [subscript n] distributions suggest that the associated flow vectors are described by a two-dimensional Gaussian function in central collisions for v [subscript 2] and over most of the measured centrality range for v [subscript 3] and v [subscript 4]. Significant deviations from this function are observed for v [subscript 2] in mid-central and peripheral collisions, and a small deviation is observed for v [subscript 3] in mid-central collisions. In order to be sensitive to these deviations, it is shown that the commonly used multi-particle cumulants, involving four particles or more, need to be measured with a precision better than a few percent. The v [subscript n] distributions are also measured independently for charged particles with 0.5 < p [subscript T] < 1 GeV and p [subscript T] > 1 GeV. When these distributions are rescaled to the same mean values, the adjusted shapes are found to be nearly the same for these two p [subscript T] ranges. The v [subscript n] distributions are compared with the eccentricity distributions from two models for the initial collision geometry: a Glauber model and a model that includes corrections to the initial geometry due to gluon saturation effects. Both models fail to describe the experimental data consistently over most of the measured centrality range.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2013)183
