Speaker
Wei Li
(MIT)
Description
Measurements of charged dihadron angular correlations are presented in
proton-proton (pp) and Lean-Lead (PbPb) collisions, over a broad range of
pseudorapidity and azimuthal angle, using the CMS detector at the LHC. In very
high multiplicity pp events at center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, a striking
"ridge"-like structure emerges in the two-dimensional correlation function for
particle pairs with intermediate pT of 1-3 GeV/c, in the kinematic region 2.0 <
|Delta eta| < 4.8 and small Delta Phi, which is similar to the observation in
heavy-ion collisions. Updated studies of this new effect as a function of
particle transverse momentum, rapidity and event characteristics are shown and
discussed in comparison to various model calculations. The long-range and
short-range dihadron correlations are also studied in PbPb collision at a
nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV. The dependence of the jet-and ridge-region shape and yield on transverse momentum and collision
centrality has been measured. A Fourier analysis of the long-range dihadron
correlations will be presented and discussed in the context of CMS measurements of higher order flow coefficients.
