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Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of charged-particle production in Xe+Xe collisions at sNN =5.44 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Aad, G 
Abbott, B 
Abbott, DC 
Abed Abud, A 
Abeling, K 

Abstract

This paper describes the measurements of flow harmonics v2-v6 in 3 μb−1 of Xe+Xe collisions at sNN=5.44 TeV performed using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Measurements of the centrality, multiplicity and pT dependence of the vn obtained using two-particle correlations and the scalar product technique are presented. The measurements are also performed using a template-fit procedure, which was developed to remove non-flow correlations in small collision systems. This non-flow removal is shown to have a significant influence on the measured vn at high pT, especially in peripheral events. Comparisons of the measured vn with measurements in Pb+Pb collisions and p+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV are also presented. The vn values in Xe+Xe collisions are observed to be larger than those in Pb+Pb collisions for n=2, 3 and 4 in the most central events. However, with decreasing centrality or increasing harmonic order n, the vn values in Xe+Xe collisions become smaller than those in Pb+Pb collisions. The vn in Xe+Xe and Pb+Pb collisions are also compared as a function of the mean number of participating nucleons, Npart⟩, and the measured charged-particle multiplicity in the detector. The v3 values in Xe+Xe and Pb+Pb collisions are observed to be similar at the same Npart⟩ or multiplicity, but the other harmonics are significantly different. Comparisons of the vn measurements with theoretical calculations are also made.

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Keywords

nucl-ex, nucl-ex, hep-ex

Journal Title

Physical Review C

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Journal ISSN

2469-9985
2469-9993

Volume Title

101

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/N000234/1)