Measurement of the Azimuthal Anisotropy of Neutral Pions in Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV
First measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy of neutral pions produced in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of [√ over s[subscript NN]]=2.76 TeV are presented. The amplitudes of the second Fourier component (v[subscript 2]) of the π[superscript 0] azimuthal distributions are extracted u...
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American Physical Society
2013
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Rochtain ar líne: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78344 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6332-5839 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-6656 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 |
Achoimre: | First measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy of neutral pions produced in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of [√ over s[subscript NN]]=2.76 TeV are presented. The amplitudes of the second Fourier component (v[subscript 2]) of the π[superscript 0] azimuthal distributions are extracted using an event-plane technique. The values of v[subscript 2] are studied as a function of the neutral pion transverse momentum (p[subscript T]) for different classes of collision centrality in the kinematic range 1.6<p[subscript T]<8.0 GeV/c, within the pseudorapidity interval |η|<0.8. The CMS measurements of v[susbcript 2](p[subscript T]) are similar to previously reported π[superscript 0] azimuthal anisotropy results from [√ over s[subscript NN]=200 GeV Au-Au collisions at RHIC, despite a factor of ∼14 increase in the center-of-mass energy. In the momentum range 2.5<p[subscript T]<5.0 GeV/c, the neutral pion anisotropies are found to be smaller than those observed by CMS for inclusive charged particles. |
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