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Three-dimensional Particle Tracking Velocimetry for Turbulence Applications: Case of a Jet Flow
Published on: February 27, 2016
Elliptic and triangular flow in p-Pb and peripheral Pb-Pb collisions from Parton scatterings
1RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA and Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059 Kraków, Poland.
Abstract:
Using a multiphase transport model (AMPT) we calculate the elliptic v_{2} and triangular v_{3} Fourier coefficients of the two-particle azimuthal correlation function in proton-nucleus (p-Pb) and peripheral nucleus-nucleus (Pb-Pb) collisions. Our results for v_{3} are in a good agreement with the CMS data collected at the Large Hadron Collider. The v_{2} coefficient is very well described in p-Pb collisions and is underestimated for higher transverse momenta in Pb-Pb interactions. The characteristic mass ordering of v_{2} in p-Pb is reproduced, whereas for v_{3}, this effect is not observed. We further predict the pseudorapidity dependence of v_{2} and v_{3} in p-Pb and observe that both are increasing when going from a proton side to a Pb-nucleus side. Predictions for the higher-order Fourier coefficients, v_{4} and v_{5}, in p-Pb are also presented.
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