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Measurement of long-range pseudorapidity correlations and azimuthal harmonics in √sNN =5.02 TeV proton-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS/IN2P3
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Toronto
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • CERN
  • Stockholm University
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Yale University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Belgrade
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • University of Bern
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Lund University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • University of Geneva
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • University of Udine
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Birmingham
  • Lancaster University
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Glasgow

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Abstract

Measurements of two-particle correlation functions and the first five azimuthal harmonics, v1 to v5, are presented, using 28 nb-1 of p+Pb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of √sNN=5.02 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Significant long-range "ridgelike" correlations are observed for pairs with small (|Δϕ|<π/3) and back-to-back pairs (|Δφ|>2π/3) over the transverse momentum range 0.4<pT<12 GeV and in different intervals of event activity. The event activity is defined by either the number of reconstructed tracks or the total transverse energy on the Pb-fragmentation side. The azimuthal structure of such long-range correlations is Fourier decomposed to obtain the harmonics νn as a function of pT and event activity. The extracted νn values for n=2 to 5 decrease with n. The ν2 and ν3 values are found to be positive in the measured pT range. The ν1 is also measured as a function of pT and is observed to change sign around pT≈1.5-2.0 GeV and then increase to about 0.1 for pT>4 GeV. The ν2 (pT), ν3 (pT), and ν4 (pT) are compared to the νn coefficients in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV with similar event multiplicities. Reasonable agreement is observed after accounting for the difference in the average pT of particles produced in the two collision systems.

Original languageEnglish
Article number044906
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume90
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Oct 2014
Externally publishedYes

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