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Hydrodynamic Collectivity in Proton--Proton Collisions at 13 TeV

Nuclear Theory 2018-04-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the hydrodynamic collectivity in proton--proton (pp) collisions at 13 TeV, using iEBE-VISHNU hybrid model with HIJING initial conditions. With properly tuned parameters, our model simulations can remarkably describe all the measured 2-particle correlations, including integrated and differential elliptic flow coefficients for all charged and identified hadrons (KS0K_S^0, Λ\Lambda). However, our model calculations show positive 4-particle cumulant c2{4}c_{2}\{4\} in high multiplicity pp collisions, and can not reproduce the negative c2{4}c_{2}\{4\} measured in experiment. Further investigations on the HIJING initial conditions show that the fluctuations of the second order anisotropy coefficient ε2\varepsilon_{2} increases with the increase of its mean value, which leads to a similar trend of the flow fluctuations. For a simultaneous description of the 2- and 4- particle cumulants within the hydrodynamic framework, it is required to have significant improvements on initial condition for pp collisions, which is still lacking of knowledge at the moment.

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@article{arxiv.1801.00271,
  title  = {Hydrodynamic Collectivity in Proton--Proton Collisions at 13 TeV},
  author = {Wenbin Zhao and You Zhou and Hao-jie Xu and Weitian Deng and Huichao Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00271},
  year   = {2018}
}

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7 pages, 6 figures, published version