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Jonatan Adolfsson

Jonatan Adolfsson

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Jonatan Adolfsson

Azimuthal Anisotropy of Heavy-Flavor Decay Electrons in p -Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV

Author

  • S Acharya
  • Jonatan Adolfsson
  • Peter Christiansen
  • Martin Ljunggren
  • Adrian Nassirpour
  • Anders Oskarsson
  • David Silvermyr
  • Evert Stenlund
  • Vytautas Vislavicius
  • S. Zou

Summary, in English

Angular correlations between heavy-flavor decay electrons and charged particles at midrapidity (|η|<0.8) are measured in p-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV. The analysis is carried out for the 0%–20% (high) and 60%–100% (low) multiplicity ranges. The jet contribution in the correlation distribution from high-multiplicity events is removed by subtracting the distribution from low-multiplicity events. An azimuthal modulation remains after removing the jet contribution, similar to previous observations in two-particle angular correlation measurements for light-flavor hadrons. A Fourier decomposition of the modulation results in a positive second-order coefficient (v2) for heavy-flavor decay electrons in the transverse momentum interval 1.5<pT<4 GeV/c in high-multiplicity events, with a significance larger than 5σ. The results are compared with those of charged particles at midrapidity and those of inclusive muons at forward rapidity. The v2 measurement of open heavy-flavor particles at midrapidity in small collision systems could provide crucial information to help interpret the anisotropies observed in such systems.

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Publication/Series

Physical Review Letters

Volume

122

Issue

7

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Physical Society

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Anisotropy
  • Modulation
  • Angular correlations
  • Azimuthal anisotropy
  • Azimuthal modulation
  • Collision systems
  • Correlation distribution
  • Fourier decomposition
  • High multiplicity
  • Transverse momenta
  • Charged particles

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1079-7114