4–11 Jul 2012
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Australia/Melbourne timezone
ICHEP2012 - 36th International Conference for High Energy Physics

Measurement of harmonic flow and particle correlations in lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=2.76 TeV from ATLAS

6 Jul 2012, 11:00
15m
Room 217 (Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre)

Room 217

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Melbourne Australia
Parallel Sessions Track 9. Heavy Ion Collisions Room 217 - Heavy Ion Collisions / B-Physics / CP Violation - TR5/7/9

Speaker

Prof. Ehud Duchovni (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

Description

This talk will present the results of the azimuthal anisotropy of charged particle production and two particle correlations  in Pb + Pb collisions measured with the ATLAS experiment. The results are obtained with multi-particle correlations and compared with the event plane method. A complete set of v_n harmonics measured from central to peripheral events covers a pseudo-rapidity range of |eta| < 2.5 and a transverse momentum range 0.5 < p_T < 20 GeV. A comparison of the event plane and particle correlation methods allow to uniquely evaluate non-flow effects as well as the size of flow fluctuations. The v_1 flow and scaling of integrated elliptic flow, down to very low-p_T, will be discussed and compared to results of lower energy experiments.

Author

Dr Fabiola Gianotti (CERN (CH))

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