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Collective behavior in small systems

Nuclear Experiment 2019-01-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The presence of correlations between particles significantly separated in pseudorapidity in proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions has raised questions about whether collective effects are observed in small collision systems as well as in heavy-ion collisions. The quantification of these long-range correlations by vnv_n coefficients is of particular interest. A selection of the latest vnv_n measurements is presented, including results from the recent dd+Au beam energy scan at RHIC where a significant non-zero v2v_2 is measured down to low center-of-mass energies (sNN\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}} = 39 GeV). Results from a collision system scan - comprising pp+Au, dd+Au, and 3^3He+Au collisions - are also shown to address the role of the initial nuclear geometry in the final state anisotropy. Finally, the challenge of measuring multi-particle cumulants, particularly c2{4}c_2\{4\}, in pp+pp collisions is discussed, and new methods for reducing the effects of non-flow are shown to produce a more robust measurement of v2{4}v_2\{4\} in pp+pp collisions.

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@article{arxiv.1901.00710,
  title  = {Collective behavior in small systems},
  author = {Alice Ohlson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00710},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Proceedings of the XXVIth International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2017), February 2017

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