Measurement of prompt D-0 meson azimuthal anisotropy in Pb-Pb collisions at root S-NN=5.02 TeV
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The prompt D0 meson azimuthal anisotropy coefficients, v2 and v3, are measured at midrapidity (|y|<1.0) in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy √sNN=5.02 TeV per nucleon pair with data collected by the CMS experiment. The measurement is performed in the transverse momentum (pT) range of 1 to 40 GeV/c, for central and midcentral collisions. The v2 coefficient is found to be positive throughout the pT range studied. The first measurement of the prompt D0 meson v3 coefficient is performed, and values up to 0.07 are observed for pT around 4 GeV/c. Compared to measurements of charged particles, a similar pT dependence, but smaller magnitude for pT<6 GeV/c, is found for prompt D0 meson v2 and v3 coefficients. The results are consistent with the presence of collective motion of charm quarks at low pT and a path length dependence of charm quark energy loss at high pT, thereby providing new constraints on the theoretical description of the interactions between charm quarks and the quark-gluon plasma.
Date Issued
2018-05
Date Acceptance
2018-03-06
Citation
Physical Review Letters, 2018, 120 (20)
ISSN
0031-9007
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
120
Issue
20
Copyright Statement
© 2018 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Physics
RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS
LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS
QUARK-GLUON PLASMA
ELLIPTIC FLOW
FLAVOR
COLLABORATION
PERSPECTIVE
LHC
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
202301
Date Publish Online
2018-05-16