Charged-particle nuclear modification factors in XeXe collisions at sNN=5.44 \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 5.44 TeV

Collaboration
Sep 1, 2018
41 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 10 (2018) 138
  • Published: Oct 22, 2018
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CMS-HIN-18-004,
  • CERN-EP-2018-228
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Springer)
The differential yields of charged particles having pseudorapidity within |η| < 1 are measured using xenon-xenon (XeXe) collisions at sNN=5.44 \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 5.44 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.42 μb1^{−1}, were collected in 2017 by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The yields are reported as functions of collision centrality and transverse momentum, pT_{T}, from 0.5 to 100 GeV. A previously reported pT_{T} spectrum from proton-proton collisions at s=5.02 \sqrt{s}=5.02 TeV is used for comparison after correcting for the difference in center-of-mass energy. The nuclear modification factors using this reference, RAA_{AA}^{*} , are constructed and compared to previous measurements and theoretical predictions. In head-on collisions, the RAA_{AA}^{*} has a value of 0.17 in the pT_{T} range of 6–8 GeV, but increases to approximately 0.7 at 100 GeV. Above ≈6 GeV, the XeXe data show a notably smaller suppression than previous results for lead-lead (PbPb) collisions at sNN=5.02 \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02 TeV when compared at the same centrality (i.e., the same fraction of total cross section). However, the XeXe suppression is slightly greater than that for PbPb in events having a similar number of participating nucleons.
Note:
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • Heavy-ion collision
  • Quark gluon plasma
  • charged particle: yield
  • rapidity dependence
  • charged particle: momentum spectrum
  • colliding beams: (xenon xenon)
  • colliding beams: (lead lead)
  • p p: colliding beams
  • transverse momentum dependence