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Collective flow in high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present an evidence of strong radial flow in high-multiplicity pp collisions. We analyze the CMS data on the inclusive spectra of the charged pions, kaons and protons in the LHC s=7\sqrt{s}=7 TeV collisions. For <Ntracks>75<N_{\mathrm{tracks}} >\gtrsim 75 we demonstrate the consistency of the hydrodynamic description with the (idealized) Gubser's flow. Using a one parameter fit of the model to experimental data, we obtain the initial fireball size to be of the order of 1 fm. At smaller multiplicities, the fit cannot be performed which shows a limitation of the hydrodynamic approach and provides us with falsifiability of our theory.

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@article{arxiv.1503.05213,
  title  = {Collective flow in high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions},
  author = {Tigran Kalaydzhyan and Edward Shuryak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05213},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages