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Measurement of long-range multiparticle azimuthal correlations with the subevent cumulant method in pp and p +Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Université Mohamed Premier and LPTPM
  • CPPM
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Institute of Physics Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • CNRS Centre National de la Recerche Scientifique
  • University Health Network, Toronto
  • Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion Israel Institute of Technology
  • University of Oregon
  • Stockholm University
  • The Oskar Klein Centre
  • INFN
  • Sezione di Trieste
  • THE ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
  • Department of Clinical Physics
  • King's College London
  • The University of Tokyo
  • AGH University of Science and Technology
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Pettenkofer School of Public Health
  • STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Belgrade
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
  • Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas
  • University of Granada
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata
  • Policlinico Universitario Tor Vergata Clinica Dermatologica
  • university of kyoto
  • Department of Clinical Sciences
  • Global Health Institute
  • Academy of Sciences
  • INFN Sezione di Bologna
  • Alma Mater Studiorum Universita di Bologna
  • University of Victoria
  • INFN National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • National Scientific and Technical Research Council Argentina (CONICET)
  • Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University Centre
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • INFN Sezione di Lecce
  • University of Salento
  • INFN Sezione di Milano
  • University of Chicago
  • Columbia University
  • Birmingham Business School

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Abstract

A detailed study of multiparticle azimuthal correlations is presented using pp data at s=5.02 and 13 TeV, and p+Pb data at sNN=5.02 TeV, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The azimuthal correlations are probed using four-particle cumulants cn{4} and flow coefficients vn{4}=(-cn{4})1/4 for n=2 and 3, with the goal of extracting long-range multiparticle azimuthal correlation signals and suppressing the short-range correlations. The values of cn{4} are obtained as a function of the average number of charged particles per event, Nch, using the recently proposed two-subevent and three-subevent cumulant methods, and compared with results obtained with the standard cumulant method. The standard method is found to be strongly biased by short-range correlations, which originate mostly from jets with a positive contribution to cn{4}. The three-subevent method, on the other hand, is found to be least sensitive to short-range correlations. The three-subevent method gives a negative c2{4}, and therefore a well-defined v2{4}, nearly independent of Nch, which implies that the long-range multiparticle azimuthal correlations persist to events with low multiplicity. Furthermore, v2{4} is found to be smaller than the v2{2} measured using the two-particle correlation method, as expected for long-range collective behavior. Finally, the measured values of v2{4} and v2{2} are used to estimate the number of sources relevant for the initial eccentricity in the collision geometry. The results based on the subevent cumulant technique provide direct evidence, in small collision systems, for a long-range collectivity involving many particles distributed across a broad rapidity interval.

Original languageEnglish
Article number024904
JournalPHYSICAL REVIEW C
Volume97
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Feb 2018

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