Speaker
Description
In heavy-ion collisions, collective phenomena in the hot and dense medium known as the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP) are probed through measurements of mean transverse momentum and azimuthal particle correlations. Similar correlation patterns observed in small collision systems raise questions about their origin, involving either final-state collective effects or initial-state parton correlations. The LHCb experiment has unique capabilities to study these observables at forward rapidity in high-energy hadronic collisions, accessing a kinematic region not covered by other LHC detectors, where longitudinal dynamics are more pronounced. By comparing forward and backward pseudorapidity measurements, LHCb also gains sensitivity to initial-state effects. This contribution presents recent LHCb results on mean transverse momentum and collective flow, providing new constraints on the mechanisms driving particle correlations across collision systems.
| Is this an experimental talk? | Yes |
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| Is this on behalf of a collaboration? | Yes |
| Which collaboration? | LHCb |
| Are you willing to present as a poster if it is not selected for oral presentation? | Yes |