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Multiparticle azimuthal cumulants from transverse momentum conservation and collective flow

Nuclear Theory 2022-05-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We calculate the nnth order of 2k2k-particle azimuthal cumulants cn{2k}c_n\{2k\} based on transverse momentum conservation (TMC) and collective flow vnv_n(n=2,3). We demonstrate that the TMC effect only leads to a nonzero cn{2k}c_n\{2k\} with the sign of (1)nk(-1)^{nk} and the magnitude inversely proportional to (N2k)nk(N-2k)^{nk}. The interplay between TMC and collective flow can change the signs of c2{4}c_2\{4\}, c3{2}c_3\{2\} and c3{4}c_3\{4\} at some values of multiplicity NN, which could provide a good probe to study the onset of collectivity and search for the substructure of proton in small colliding systems.

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@article{arxiv.2204.01038,
  title  = {Multiparticle azimuthal cumulants from transverse momentum conservation and collective flow},
  author = {Mu-Ting Xie and Guo-Liang Ma and Adam Bzdak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.01038},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

11 pages, 3 figures, final published version