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High order flow harmonics of identified hadrons in 2.76 A TeV Pb+Pb collisions

Nuclear Theory 2016-06-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Using iEBE-VISHNU hybrid model with the AMPT initial conditions, we study the higher order flow harmonics of identified hadrons in 2.76 A TeV Pb+Pb collisions. Comparison with the recent ALICE measurements at 20-30\% centrality shows that our calculations nicely describe the data below 2 GeV, especially for the v2v_2, v3v_3 and v4v_4 mass-orderings among pions, kaons and protons. We also extended the calculations to other centrality bins, which presents similar mass-ordering patterns for these flow harmonics as the ones observed at 20-30\% centrality. In the later part of this article, we explore the development of vnv_n mass ordering/splitting during the hadronic evolution through the comparison runs from iEBE-VISHNU hybrid model and pure hydrodynamics with different decoupling temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.1602.02029,
  title  = {High order flow harmonics of identified hadrons in 2.76 A TeV Pb+Pb collisions},
  author = {Hao-jie Xu and Zhuopeng Li and Huichao Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02029},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures