Correlations of azimuthal anisotropy harmonics in pp, pPb and PbPb collisions at the LHC

Collaboration
2017
12 pages
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-HIN-16-022
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20152016201704
Abstract:
The first measurements of anisotropy harmonics (vnv_n, n=24n=2-4) in pPb\text{pPb} collisions at sNN=8.16 TeV\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 8.16~\mathrm{TeV} is presented. In addition, measurements of event-by-event correlations of different vnv_n in pp\text{pp} at s=13 TeV\sqrt{s} = 13~\mathrm{TeV}, pPb\text{pPb} at sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 5.02 and 8.16 TeV8.16~\mathrm{TeV} and PbPb\text{PbPb} at sNN=5.02 TeV\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 5.02~\mathrm{TeV} collision systems at the LHC are explored. New results of the vnv_n harmonics in 8.16 TeV8.16~\mathrm{TeV} pPb\text{pPb} collisions are extracted via long-range (Δη>2|\Delta\eta|>2) two-particle correlations as a function of event multiplicity. The current measurement is reaching a very-high-multiplicity region beyond that achieved in 5.02 TeV5.02~\mathrm{TeV} pPb\text{pPb} data collected in 2013. Event-by-event correlations among v2v_2, v3v_3 and v4v_4 harmonics are measured using the four-particle symmetric cumulant method in pp\text{pp} and pPb\text{pPb}, and compared to the large system of PbPb\text{PbPb} collisions. For high-multiplicity (more than 100 tracks) pp\text{pp} and pPb\text{pPb} events, the v2v_2 harmonic is found to have a negative correlation with the v3v_3 harmonic, while the v2v_2 and v4v_4 harmonics are positively correlated. Normalized by the two-particle vnv_n harmonics, the correlation coefficients of v2v_2 and v3v_3 harmonics are quantitatively similar for pPb\text{pPb} and PbPb\text{PbPb} data, while a strong system size dependence is observed for correlations of v2v_2 and v4v_4 harmonics. These new data provide important insights to the origin of collectivity observed in small collision systems.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Data
  • correlation: two-particle
  • anisotropy
  • angular distribution
  • vertex
  • multiplicity
  • pile-up
  • transport theory
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • heavy ion: scattering