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Probing the Partonic Degrees of Freedom in High-Multiplicity p–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [3]
  1. Peking Univ., Beijing (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China); Texas A&M University
  2. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  3. Peking Univ., Beijing (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China)
  4. Central China Normal University, Hubei (China); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
We investigate the role of partonic degrees of freedom in high-multiplicity p–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by studying the production and collective flow of identified hadrons at intermediate pT via the coalescence of soft partons from the viscous hydrodynamics (VISH 2 + 1) and hard partons from the energy loss model, linear Boltzmann transport (LBT). We find that combining these intermediate pT hadrons with the low pT hadrons from the hydrodynamically expanding fluid and high pT hadrons from the fragmentation of quenched jets, the resulting hydro-dynamics-coalescence-fragmentation model provides a nice description of measured pT spectra and differential elliptic flow v2 (pT) of pions, kaons, and protons over the pT range from 0 to 6 GeV. We further demonstrate the necessity of including the quark coalescence contribution to reproduce the experimentally observed approximate number of constituent quark scaling of hadron v2 at intermediate pT. Furthermore, our results thus indicate the importance of partonic degrees of freedom and also hint at the possible formation of quark-gluon plasma in high-multiplicity p–Pb collisions at the LHC.
Research Organization:
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
CSC; MOST; NSFC; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0015266
OSTI ID:
1647342
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 125; ISSN 1079-7114; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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