Measurement of the (anti-)<SUP>3</SUP>He elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at √<i>s</i><sub>NN</sub>=5.02TeV



Acharya, S, Adamova, D, Adhya, SP, Adler, A, Adolfsson, J, Aggarwal, MM, Rinella, G Aglieri, Agnello, M, Agrawal, N, Ahammed, Z
et al (show 1021 more authors) (2020) Measurement of the (anti-)<SUP>3</SUP>He elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at √<i>s</i><sub>NN</sub>=5.02TeV. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 805. p. 135414.

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Abstract

The elliptic flow (v2) of (anti-)3He is measured in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV in the transverse-momentum (pT) range of 2–6 GeV/c for the centrality classes 0–20%, 20–40%, and 40–60% using the event-plane method. This measurement is compared to that of pions, kaons, and protons at the same center-of-mass energy. A clear mass ordering is observed at low pT, as expected from relativistic hydrodynamics. The violation of the scaling of v2 with the number of constituent quarks at low pT, already observed for identified hadrons and deuterons at LHC energies, is confirmed also for (anti-)3He. The elliptic flow of (anti-)3He is underestimated by the Blast-Wave model and overestimated by a simple coalescence approach based on nucleon scaling. The elliptic flow of (anti-)3He measured in the centrality classes 0–20% and 20–40% is well described by a more sophisticated coalescence model where the phase-space distributions of protons and neutrons are generated using the iEBE-VISHNU hybrid model with AMPT initial conditions.

Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2021 14:20
Last Modified: 08 Oct 2023 15:18
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135414
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135414
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3136649