Speaker
Description
In heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies that Large Hadron Collider (LHC) achieves, a hot and dense medium called quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is created. Intriguingly, the collective motion of produced particles forms an almond shape, that is thought to be the signature of QGP formation. Colliding Xe-Xe nuclei in ALICE experiment at the LHC we can determine the initial state of the collision by measuring the flow parameter $v_{2}$. In this talk, we present how to measure the elliptic flow coefficient $v_{2}$ in Xe-Xe collisions using direct calculations from Q-cumulant method. The centrality dependence of $v_{2}$ shows that is increasing from ultra central to mid peripheral collisions because of the initial geometry of the system. For higher order multi-particle cumulants $v_{2}\{ m\}$ we observe the suppression of non flow effects, as well as, the fact that the system is driven by flow fluctuations.
| Academic year | 3rd year |
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| Research Advisor | Anthony Timmins |
