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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
  • Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Academia Sinica, Institute Of Physics
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Department of Physics
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Michigan State University
  • Department of Physics
  • University of Toronto
  • Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Department of Physics
  • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Department of Physics
  • Stockholm University
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine
  • INFN Sezione di Trieste
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science
  • Agh University of Science and Technology Faculty of Computer Science
  • Physics Department
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Yale University
  • Fakultät für Physik
  • Universität München
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Institute of Physics
  • University of Belgrade
  • Lisboa
  • Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos
  • University of Granada
  • Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics
  • University of Bern
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • INFN Roma Tor Vergata
  • Dipartimento di Fisica
  • University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
  • Lund University
  • Department of Physics
  • University of Tokyo
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • INFN Sezione di Bologna
  • Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia
  • University of Bologna
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • University of Victoria
  • LTHE (UMR 5564 CNRS/IRD/Université de Grenoble)
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • Section de Physique
  • University of Geneva
  • Physics Department
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Dipartimento di Chimica
  • and Physics University of Udine
  • Sezione INFN di Milano
  • University of Chicago
  • School of Physics and Astronomy
  • University of Birmingham
  • Lancaster University
  • Oliver Lodge Laboratory
  • University of Liverpool
  • School of Physics and Astronomy
  • University of Manchester
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • University of Cambridge
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc

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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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