Measurement of flow harmonics correlations with mean transverse momentum in lead–lead and proton–lead collisions at sNN−−−√=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Franconi, Laura; Miucci, Antonio; Merlassino, Claudia; Haug, Sigve; Weber, Michael; Anders, John Kenneth; Beck, Hans Peter; Ereditato, Antonio; Weston, Thomas Daniel (2019). Measurement of flow harmonics correlations with mean transverse momentum in lead–lead and proton–lead collisions at sNN−−−√=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, 79(12) Springer 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7489-6

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To assess the properties of the quark–gluon plasma formed in ultrarelativistic ion collisions, the ATLAS experiment at the LHC measures a correlation between the mean transverse momentum and the flow harmonics. The analysis uses data samples of lead–lead and proton–lead collisions obtained at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV, corresponding to total integrated luminosities of 22 μb−1 and 28 nb−1, respectively. The measurement is performed using a modified Pearson correlation coefficient with the charged-particle tracks on an event-by-event basis. The modified Pearson correlation coefficients for the 2nd-, 3rd-, and 4th-order flow harmonics are measured in the lead–lead collisions as a function of event centrality quantified as the number of charged particles or the number of nucleons participating in the collision. The measurements are performed for several intervals of the charged-particle transverse momentum. The correlation coefficients for all studied harmonics exhibit a strong centrality evolution, which only weakly depends on the charged-particle momentum range. In the proton–lead collisions, the modified Pearson correlation coefficient measured for the 2nd-order flow harmonics shows only weak centrality dependence. The lead-lead data is qualitatively described by the predictions based on the hydrodynamical model.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)
10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)

UniBE Contributor:

Franconi, Laura, Miucci, Antonio, Merlassino, Claudia, Haug, Sigve, Weber, Michele, Anders, John Kenneth, Beck, Hans Peter, Ereditato, Antonio, Weston, Thomas Daniel

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1434-6044

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

BORIS Import LHEP

Date Deposited:

02 Jun 2020 13:43

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:38

Publisher DOI:

10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7489-6

Additional Information:

Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Forschenden namentlich erwaehnt; The ATLAS collaboration

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.143565

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/143565

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