17–31 Jul 2025
Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece
Europe/Athens timezone
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Anisotropic flow in ultra-central Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.36$ TeV with ALICE

21 Jul 2025, 17:00
25m
Room 1

Room 1

Talk Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena

Speaker

Iris Likmeta (University of Houston (US))

Description

Anisotropic flow measurements in heavy-ion collisions are sensitive to the spatial distribution of the initial state, and QGP transport properties such as the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio $(\eta/s)$. Hydrodynamic models successfully describe such flow measurements over a wide centrality range. However, the hydrodynamic description of anisotropic flow deviates from the data in ultra-central collisions. An octupole deformation of the $\textbf{$^{208}$Pb}$ nuclei has been proposed as a remedy to improve the modeling of the measured $v_{3} \{2\} / v_{2} \{2\}$ ratio. Such a deformation should manifest in triangular flow fluctuations via measurements of the $v_3\{4\}/v_3 \{2\}$ ratio.
In this talk, we present multi-particle elliptic flow measurements of the coefficient $v_{n}\{m\}$ in Pb--Pb collisions with LHC Run 3 data over the full centrality range. We will also present measurements from ultra-central collisions and discuss whether there is experimental evidence for an octupole deformation.

Details

Iris Likmeta, PhD student, University of Houston-USA
https://uh.edu/nsm/physics/

Internet talk No
Is this an abstract from experimental collaboration? Yes
Name of experiment and experimental site ALICE, CERN
Is the speaker for that presentation defined? Yes

Author

Iris Likmeta (University of Houston (US))

Presentation materials