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T1 - Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy for charged particle production in sNN−−−−√=2.76 TeV lead-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector
AU - Barton, Adam
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Eva
AU - Brodbeck, Timothy
AU - Chilingarov, Alexandre
AU - Davidson, Ruth
AU - de Mora, Lee
AU - Dearnaley, William
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Henderson, Robert
AU - Hughes, Gareth
AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin
AU - Love, Peter
AU - Ratoff, Peter
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Walder, James
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
N1 - Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. ©2012 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
PY - 2012/7/24
Y1 - 2012/7/24
N2 - Differential measurements of charged particle azimuthal anisotropy are presented for lead-lead collisions at sNN−−−−√=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, based on an integrated luminosity of approximately 8 μb−1. This anisotropy is characterized via a Fourier expansion of the distribution of charged particles in azimuthal angle relative to the reaction plane, with the coefficients vn denoting the magnitude of the anisotropy. Significant v2–v6 values are obtained as a function of transverse momentum (0.52) and one particle with pT<3 GeV, the v2,2–v6,6 values are found to factorize as vn,n(paT,pbT)≈vn(paT)vn(pbT) in central and midcentral events. Such factorization suggests that these values of v2,2–v6,6 are primarily attributable to the response of the created matter to the fluctuations in the geometry of the initial state. A detailed study shows that the v1,1(paT,pbT) data are consistent with the combined contributions from a rapidity-even v1 and global momentum conservation. A two-component fit is used to extract the v1 contribution. The extracted v1 is observed to cross zero at pT≈1.0 GeV, reaches a maximum at 4–5 GeV with a value comparable to that for v3, and decreases at higher pT.
AB - Differential measurements of charged particle azimuthal anisotropy are presented for lead-lead collisions at sNN−−−−√=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, based on an integrated luminosity of approximately 8 μb−1. This anisotropy is characterized via a Fourier expansion of the distribution of charged particles in azimuthal angle relative to the reaction plane, with the coefficients vn denoting the magnitude of the anisotropy. Significant v2–v6 values are obtained as a function of transverse momentum (0.52) and one particle with pT<3 GeV, the v2,2–v6,6 values are found to factorize as vn,n(paT,pbT)≈vn(paT)vn(pbT) in central and midcentral events. Such factorization suggests that these values of v2,2–v6,6 are primarily attributable to the response of the created matter to the fluctuations in the geometry of the initial state. A detailed study shows that the v1,1(paT,pbT) data are consistent with the combined contributions from a rapidity-even v1 and global momentum conservation. A two-component fit is used to extract the v1 contribution. The extracted v1 is observed to cross zero at pT≈1.0 GeV, reaches a maximum at 4–5 GeV with a value comparable to that for v3, and decreases at higher pT.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevC.86.014907
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevC.86.014907
M3 - Journal article
VL - 86
JO - Physical Review C
JF - Physical Review C
SN - 0556-2813
IS - 1
M1 - 014907
ER -