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Kaare Endrup Iversen

Kaare Iversen

Doctoral student

Kaare Endrup Iversen

Systematic study of flow vector fluctuations in sNN =5.02 TeV Pb-Pb collisions

Author

  • S. Acharya
  • S. Basu
  • P. Christiansen
  • J. Hansen
  • K.E. Iversen
  • O. Matonoha
  • R. Nepeivoda
  • A. Ohlson
  • D. Silvermyr
  • J. Staa
  • V. Vislavicius
  • N. Zurlo

Summary, in English

Measurements of the pT-dependent flow vector fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV using azimuthal correlations with the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider are presented. A four-particle correlation approach [ALICE Collaboration, Phys. Rev. C 107, L051901 (2023)2469-998510.1103/PhysRevC.107.L051901] is used to quantify the effects of flow angle and magnitude fluctuations separately. This paper extends previous studies to additional centrality intervals and provides measurements of the pT-dependent flow vector fluctuations at sNN=5.02TeV with two-particle correlations. Significant pT-dependent fluctuations of the V - 2 flow vector in Pb-Pb collisions are found across different centrality ranges, with the largest fluctuations of up to ∼15% being present in the 5% most central collisions. In parallel, no evidence of significant pT-dependent fluctuations of V - 3 or V - 4 is found. Additionally, evidence of flow angle and magnitude fluctuations is observed with more than 5σ significance in central collisions. These observations in Pb-Pb collisions indicate where the classical picture of hydrodynamic modeling with a common symmetry plane breaks down. This has implications for hard probes at high pT, which might be biased by pT-dependent flow angle fluctuations of at least 23% in central collisions. Given the presented results, existing theoretical models should be reexamined to improve our understanding of initial conditions, quark-gluon plasma properties, and the dynamic evolution of the created system. © 2024 CERN, for the ALICE Collaboration.

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Publication/Series

Physical Review C

Volume

109

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Physical Society

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2469-9985