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Long-range angular correlations of $\rm \pi$, K and p in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV

Nuclear Experiment 2014-09-16 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Angular correlations between unidentified charged trigger particles and various species of charged associated particles (unidentified particles, pions, kaons, protons and antiprotons) are measured by the ALICE detector in p-Pb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV in the transverse-momentum range 0.3<pT<40.3 < p_{\rm T} < 4 GeV/cc. The correlations expressed as associated yield per trigger particle are obtained in the pseudorapidity range ηlab<0.8|\eta_{\rm lab}|<0.8. Fourier coefficients are extracted from the long-range correlations projected onto the azimuthal angle difference and studied as a function of pTp_{\rm T} and in intervals of event multiplicity. In high-multiplicity events, the second-order coefficient for protons, v2pv_2^p, is observed to be smaller than that for pions, v2πv_2^\pi, up to about pT=2p_{\rm T} = 2 GeV/cc. To reduce correlations due to jets, the per-trigger yield measured in low-multiplicity events is subtracted from that in high-multiplicity events. A two-ridge structure is obtained for all particle species. The Fourier decomposition of this structure shows that the second-order coefficients for pions and kaons are similar. The v2pv_2^p is found to be smaller at low pTp_{\rm T} and larger at higher pTp_{\rm T} than v2piv_2^pi, with a crossing occurring at about 2 GeV. This is qualitatively similar to the elliptic-flow pattern observed in heavy-ion collisions. A mass ordering effect at low transverse momenta is consistent with expectations from hydrodynamic model calculations assuming a collectively expanding system.

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@article{arxiv.1307.3237,
  title  = {Long-range angular correlations of $\rm \pi$, K and p in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV},
  author = {ALICE Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.3237},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

26 pages, 4 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 20, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/445