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Measurement of the Azimuthal Anisotropy of Neutral Pions in Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN=2.76  TeV
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Measurement of the Azimuthal Anisotropy of Neutral Pions in Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN=2.76  TeV

S Chatrchyan, Vuko Brigljević, Senka Đurić, Krešo Kadija, Jelena Luetić, Srećko Morović and CMS Collaboration
Physical review letters, Vol.110(4), 042301
01/01/2013
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.042301
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.042301View
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Abstract

First measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy of neutral pions produced in PbPb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV are presented. The amplitudes of the second Fourier component ($v_2$) of the neutral pion azimuthal distributions are extracted using an event-plane technique. The values of $v_2$ are studied as a function of the neutral pion transverse momentum ($p_T$) for different classes of collision centrality in the kinematic range 1.6 < $p_T$ < 8.0 GeV, within the pseudorapidity interval |$\eta$| < 0.8. The CMS measurements of $v_2(p_T)$ are similar to previously reported neutral pion azimuthal anisotropy results from $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV AuAu collisions at RHIC, despite a factor of about 14 increase in the center-of-mass energy. In the momentum range 2.5 < $p_T$ < 5.0 GeV, the neutral pion anisotropies are found to be smaller than those observed by CMS for inclusive charged particles.
High Energy Physics Nuclear Physics Particle Physics Physics Astronomy (all) Experiment Física Medicine (all) Nuclear Experiment Physique des particules élémentaires

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