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Bulk observables at 5.02 TeV using quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics

Nuclear Theory 2021-12-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present comparisons between 3+1D quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydroQP) predictions for a large set of bulk observables and experimental data collected in 5.02 TeV Pb-Pb collisions. We make aHydroQP predictions for identified hadron spectra, identified hadron average transverse momentum, charged particle multiplicity as a function of pseudorapidity, the kaon-to-pion (K/πK/\pi) and proton-to-pion (p/πp/\pi) ratios, and integrated elliptic flow. We compare to data collected by the ALICE collaboration in 5.02 TeV Pb-Pb collisions. We find that these bulk observables are quite well described by aHydroQP with an assumed initial central temperature of T0=630T_0=630 MeV at τ0=0.25\tau_0 = 0.25 fm/c and a constant specific shear viscosity of η/s=0.159\eta/s=0.159 and a peak specific bulk viscosity of ζ/s=0.048\zeta/s = 0.048. In particular, we find that the momentum dependence of the kaon-to-pion (K/πK/\pi) and proton-to-pion (p/πp/\pi) ratios reported recently by the ALICE collaboration are extremely well described by aHydroQP in the most central collisions.

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@article{arxiv.2008.07657,
  title  = {Bulk observables at 5.02 TeV using quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics},
  author = {Mubarak Alqahtani and Michael Strickland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.07657},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages, 5 multipanel figures

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