Measurement of anisotropic flow in XeXe collisions at 5.44 TeV with the CMS experiment
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
New measurements of anisotropic flow in XeXe collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 5.44 TeV per nucleon pair, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, are presented. The ν2, ν3 and ν4 Fourier coefficients of the anisotropic azimuthal distribution are obtained employing three different analysis techniques: two-particle correlations, the scalar product method, and multiparticle cumulants, which have different sensitivities to non-flow and flow fluctuation effects. The results are shown as a function of transverse momentum (pT) for various centrality selections, and compared with corresponding results from PbPb collisions. These new measurements in a smaller nucleus-nucleus system than PbPb provide additional insights into the system-size dependence of the collective flow induced by the dominant collision geometry and its fluctuations. In particular, these results, compared to theoretical predictions and Monte Carlo generators, will provide important details on the system size dependence of the medium response in heavy ion collisions. They also offer a unique opportunity to study the onset of flow from small to large systems.
Date Issued
2019-02-01
Date Acceptance
2019-01-01
Citation
Nuclear Physics A, 2019, 982, pp.395-398
ISSN
0375-9474
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
395
End Page
398
Journal / Book Title
Nuclear Physics A
Volume
982
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Nuclear
Physics
flow
collectivity
system size
correlations
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-01-22