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Evidence for Similar Collectivity of High Transverse-Momentum Particles in p-Pb and Pb-Pb Collisions

V. Chekhovsky , Aram Hayrapetyan , В. Макаренко , A. Tumasyan , W. Adam , Janik Walter Andrejkovic , L. Benato , T. Bergauer , Sa. Jain , A. Muhammad ,

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Abstract

Charged hadron elliptic anisotropies ($v_2$) are presented over a wide transverse momentum ($p_\text{T}$) range for proton-lead (pPb) and lead-lead (PbPb) collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies of 8.16 and 5.02 TeV, respectively. The data were recorded by the CMS experiment and correspond to integrated luminosities of 186 nb$^{-1}$ and 0.607 nb$^{-1}$ for the pPb and PbPb systems, respectively. A four-particle cumulant analysis is performed using subevents separated in pseudorapidity to effectively suppress non-collective effects. At high $p_\text{T}$ ($p_\text{T}$$\gt$ 8 GeV), significant positive $v_2$ values are observed that are similar between pPb and PbPb collisions at comparable charged particle multiplicities. This observation suggests a common origin for the multi-particle collectivity for high-$p_\text{T}$ particles in the two systems.

Keywords

Pseudorapidity Physics Nuclear physics Charged particle Hadron Proton Nucleon Elliptic flow Particle (ecology) Range (aeronautics) Particle physics Ion Heavy ion Materials science

Subject Areas

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research ·Nuclear and High Energy Physics ·Physical Sciences
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies ·Nuclear and High Energy Physics ·Physical Sciences
Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions ·Nuclear and High Energy Physics ·Physical Sciences