Measurement of the pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of the elliptic flow of charged particles in lead–lead collisions at √s<sub>NN</sub>=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Title		Measurement of the pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of the elliptic flow of charged particles in lead–lead collisions at √s_NN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Collaboration		ATLAS Collaboration With : Abdelalim Aly, Ahmed Aly / Alexandre, Gauthier / Backes, Moritz / Bell, Paul / Bell, William / Berglund, Frida Elina / Blondel, Alain / Bucci, Francesca / Clark, Allan Geoffrey / Dao, Valerio / Ferrere, Didier / Gadomski, Szymon / Garcia Navarro, Jose Enrique / Gaumer, Olivier / Gonzalez Sevilla, Sergio / Goulette, Marc / Hamilton, Andrew / Iacobucci, Giuseppe / Leger, Annie / Lister, Alison / Macina-Buono, Daniela / Martin Dit Latour, Bertrand / Mora Herrera, Maria Clemencia Rosario / Morone, Maria Cristina / Nektarijevic, Snezana / Nikolics, Katalin / Pasztor, Arpad / Pohl, Martin / Robichaud-Veronneau, Andrée / Rosbach, Kilian / Rosselet, Laurent / Wu, Xin
Published in		Physics Letters. B. 2012, vol. 707, no. 3-4, p. 330-348
Abstract		This Letter describes the measurement of elliptic flow of charged particles in lead–lead collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The results are based on an integrated luminosity of approximately 7 μb−1. Elliptic flow is measured over a wide region in pseudorapidity, \|η\|<2.5\|η\|<2.5, and over a broad range in transverse momentum, 0.5<pT<20 GeV. The elliptic flow parameter v2v2 is obtained by correlating individual tracks with the event plane measured using energy deposited in the forward calorimeters. As a function of transverse momentum, v2(pT) reaches a maximum at pT of about 3 GeV, then decreases and becomes weakly dependent on pT above 7–8 GeV. Over the measured pseudorapidity region, v2v2 is found to be only weakly dependent on η, with less variation than observed at lower beam energies. The results are discussed in the context of previous measurements at lower collision energies, as well as recent results from the LHC.
Keywords		LHC — ATLAS — Heavy ions — Elliptic flow
Identifiers		DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.056
Full text		Article (Published version) (1.2 MB) - Limited access to UNIGE Other version: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269311015243#
Structures		Faculté des sciences / Section de physique / Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire
Citation (ISO format)		ATLAS COLLABORATION. Measurement of the pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of the elliptic flow of charged particles in lead–lead collisions at √s_NN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: Physics Letters. B, 2012, vol. 707, n° 3-4, p. 330-348. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:40535

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Measurement of the pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of the elliptic flow of charged particles in lead–lead collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Measurement of the pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of the elliptic flow of charged particles in lead–lead collisions at √s_NN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector