Measurement of longitudinal flow decorrelations in Pb+Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_{\text {NN}}}=2.76$$ and 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Measurements of longitudinal flow correlations are presented for charged particles in the pseudorapidity range |η|<2.4 using 7 and 470 μb-1 of Pb+Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s}$$$$_ {NN}$$= 2.76 and 5.02 TeV, respectively, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. It is found that the correlation between the harmonic flow coefficients vn measured in two separated η intervals does not factorise into the product of single-particle coefficients, and this breaking of factorisation, or flow decorrelation, increases linearly with the η separation between the intervals. The flow decorrelation is stronger at 2.76 TeV than at 5.02 TeV. Higher-order moments of the correlations are also measured, and the corresponding linear coefficients for the kth-moment of the vn are found to be proportional to k for v3, but not for v2. The decorrelation effect is separated into contributions from the magnitude of vn and the event-plane orientation, each as a function of η. These two contributions are found to be comparable. The longitudinal flow correlations are also measured between vn of different order in n. The decorrelations of v2 and v3 are found to be independent of each other, while the decorrelations of v4 and v5 are found to be driven by the nonlinear contribution from v$$2\atop{2}$$ and v2v3, respectively.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE
- Contributing Organization:
- ATLAS Collaboration
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; SC0007881; AC02-76SF00515; SC0012704
- OSTI ID:
- 1434012
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1425677; OSTI ID: 1499423; OSTI ID: 1771114
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-209238-2018-JACI; ark:/13030/qt3hb4w768; TRN: US1802671
- Journal Information:
- European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, Vol. 78, Issue 2; Related Information: © 2018, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.; ISSN 1434-6044
- Publisher:
- SpringerCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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