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Correlations and fluctuations measured by the CMS experiment in pp and PbPb

Nuclear Experiment 2015-05-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Measurements of charged dihadron angular correlations are presented in proton-proton (pp) and Lead-Lead (PbPb) collisions, over a broad range of pseudorapidity and azimuthal angle, using the CMS detector at the LHC. In very high multiplicity pp events at center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, a striking "ridge"-like structure emerges in the two-dimensional correlation function for particle pairs with intermediate pt of 1-3 GeVc, in the kinematic region 2.0<|\Delta\eta|<4.8 and small \Delta\phi, which is similar to observations in heavy-ion collisions. Studies of this new effect as a function of particle transverse momentum are discussed. The long-range and short-range dihadron correlations are also studied in PbPb collision at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV, as a function of transverse momentum and collision centrality. A Fourier analysis of the long-range dihadron correlations is presented and discussed in the context of CMS measurements of higher order flow coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.1107.2452,
  title  = {Correlations and fluctuations measured by the CMS experiment in pp and PbPb},
  author = {Wei Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.2452},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 8 figures, proceedings for Quark Matter 2011, Annecy, France, May 23-28, 2011