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Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in small collisional systems measured with ALICE

Nuclear Experiment 2019-02-07 v1

Abstract

Recent observations of long-range multi-particle azimuthal correlations in p--Pb and high multiplicity pp collisions provided new insights into collision dynamics and opened a possibility to study collective effects in these small systems. New measurement of pTp_\mathrm{T}-differential elliptic flow (v2v_{2}) coefficient for inclusive charged hadrons as well as a variety of identified particle species in p--Pb collisions at sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=5.02 TeV recorded by ALICE during the LHC Run 2 data taking are presented. Besides high precision measurements of v2(pT)v_2(p_\mathrm{T}) for π±,K±\mathrm{\pi^\pm, K^\pm} and p(pˉ)\mathrm{p(\bar{p})}, the very first results for KS0,Λ(Λˉ)\mathrm{K_{S}^{0}, \Lambda(\bar{\Lambda})} and ϕ\phi are shown. In order to eliminate non-flow contamination, a pseudorapidity separation between correlated particles is applied as well as subtraction of remaining non-flow estimate based on a measurement of minimum-bias pp collisions at s=13\sqrt{s}=13 TeV. Moreover, reported characteristic mass ordering and approximate NCQ and KET\mathrm{KE_T} scaling of v2v_{2} allows to test various theoretical models, constrain the initial conditions, and probe the origin of collective behavior in small collision systems.

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@article{arxiv.1807.04538,
  title  = {Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in small collisional systems measured with ALICE},
  author = {Vojtěch Pacík},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.04538},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, conference proceedings, submitted to Null. Phys. A