Event-shape engineering for inclusive spectra and elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN =2.76 TeV
Physical Review C, vol.93, no.3, 2016 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 93 Issue: 3
- Publication Date: 2016
- Doi Number: 10.1103/physrevc.93.034916
- Journal Name: Physical Review C
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: No
Abstract
We report on results obtained with the event-shape engineering technique applied to Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV. By selecting events in the same centrality interval, but with very different average flow, different initial-state conditions can be studied. We find the effect of the event-shape selection on the elliptic flow coefficient v2 to be almost independent of transverse momentum pT, which is as expected if this effect is attributable to fluctuations in the initial geometry of the system. Charged-hadron, -pion, -kaon, and -proton transverse momentum distributions are found to be harder in events with higher-than-average elliptic flow, indicating an interplay between radial and elliptic flow.