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Azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles with transverse momentum up to 100 GeV/c in PbPb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV

par Sirunyan, A.M.;Brun, Hugues ;Caillol, Cécile ;Clerbaux, Barbara ;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Fasanella, Giuseppe ;Favart, Laurent ;Grebenyuk, Anastasia ;Karapostoli, Georgia ;Lenzi, Thomas ;Leonard, Alexandre ;Maerschalk, Thierry ;Marinov, Audrey ;Randle-Conde, Aidan Sean ;Reis, Thomas ;Seva, Tomislav ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Yonamine, Ryo ;Zenoni, Florian ;Zhang, Fengwangdong ;Delannoy, Hugo ;Fang, Wenxing ;Luetic, Jelena ; [et al.]
Référence Physics letters. Section B, 776, page (195-216)
Publication Publié, 2018-01

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The Fourier coefficients v2 and v3 characterizing the anisotropy of the azimuthal distribution of charged particles produced in PbPb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV are measured with data collected by the CMS experiment. The measurements cover a broad transverse momentum range, 110 GeV/c range, where anisotropic azimuthal distributions should reflect the path-length dependence of parton energy loss in the created medium. Results are presented in several bins of PbPb collision centrality, spanning the 60% most central events. The v2 coefficient is measured with the scalar product and the multiparticle cumulant methods, which have different sensitivities to initial-state fluctuations. The values from both methods remain positive up to pT∼60–80 GeV/c, in all examined centrality classes. The v3 coefficient, only measured with the scalar product method, tends to zero for pT≳20 GeV/c. Comparisons between theoretical calculations and data provide new constraints on the path-length dependence of parton energy loss in heavy ion collisions and highlight the importance of the initial-state fluctuations.