Longitudinal Flow Decorrelations in Xe plus Xe Collisions at √<i>s<sub>NN </sub></i>=5.44 TeV with the ATLAS Detector



Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abud, A Abed, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2906 more authors) (2021) Longitudinal Flow Decorrelations in Xe plus Xe Collisions at √<i>s<sub>NN </sub></i>=5.44 TeV with the ATLAS Detector. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 126 (12). 122301-.

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Abstract

The first measurement of longitudinal decorrelations of harmonic flow amplitudes v_{n} for n=2-4 in Xe+Xe collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.44  TeV is obtained using 3  μb^{-1} of data with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The decorrelation signal for v_{3} and v_{4} is found to be nearly independent of collision centrality and transverse momentum (p_{T}) requirements on final-state particles, but for v_{2} a strong centrality and p_{T} dependence is seen. When compared with the results from Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02  TeV, the longitudinal decorrelation signal in midcentral Xe+Xe collisions is found to be larger for v_{2}, but smaller for v_{3}. Current hydrodynamic models reproduce the ratios of the v_{n} measured in Xe+Xe collisions to those in Pb+Pb collisions but fail to describe the magnitudes and trends of the ratios of longitudinal flow decorrelations between Xe+Xe and Pb+Pb. The results on the system-size dependence provide new insights and an important lever arm to separate effects of the longitudinal structure of the initial state from other early and late time effects in heavy-ion collisions.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 29 pages in total, author list starting page 13, 4 figures. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2019-06/
Uncontrolled Keywords: ATLAS Collaboration
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 19 Apr 2021 08:12
Last Modified: 11 Oct 2023 20:35
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.122301
Open Access URL: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/Phys...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3119687