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Energy dependence and fluctuations of anisotropic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 and 2.76 TeV
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Acharya, S; Acosta, FT; Adamová, D; Adolfsson, J; Aggarwal, MM; Aglieri Rinella, G; Agnello, M; Agrawal, N; Ahammed, Z; Ahn, SU; Aiola, S; Akindinov, A; Al-Turany, M; Alam, SN; Albuquerque, DSD; Aleksandrov, D; Alessandro, B; Alfaro Molina, R; Ali, Y; Alici, A; Alkin, A; Alme, J; Alt, T; Altenkamper, L; Altsybeev, I; Andrei, C; Andreou, D; Andrews, HA; Andronic, A; Angeletti, M; Anguelov, V; Anson, C; Antičić, T; Antinori, F; Antonioli, P; Anwar, R; Apadula, N; Aphecetche, L; Appelshäuser, H; Arcelli, S; Arnaldi, R; Arnold, OW; Arsene, IC; Arslandok, M; Audurier, B; Augustinus, A; Averbeck, R; Azmi, MD; Badalà, A; Baek, YW; Bagnasco, S; Bailhache, R; Bala, R; Baldisseri, A; Ball, M; Baral, RC; Barbano, AM; Barbera, R; Barile, F; Barioglio, L; Barnaföldi, GG; Barnby, LS; Barret, V; Bartalini, P; Barth, K; Bartsch, E; Bastid, N; Basu, S; Batigne, G; Batyunya, B; Batzing, PC; Bazo Alba, JL; Bearden, IG; Beck, H; Bedda, C; Behera, NK; Belikov, I; Bellini, F; Bello Martinez, H; Bellwied, R; Beltran, LGE; Belyaev, V; Bencedi, G; Beole, S; Bercuci, A; Berdnikov, Y; Berenyi, D; Bertens, RA; Berzano, D; Betev, L; Bhaduri, PP; Bhasin, A; Bhat, IR; Bhatt, H; Bhattacharjee, B; Bhom, J; Bianchi, A; Bianchi, L; Bianchi, N; Bielčík, J
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Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(7)
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Measurements of anisotropic flow coefficients with two- and multi-particle cumulants for inclusive charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 and 2.76 TeV are reported in the pseudorapidity range |η| < 0.8 and transverse momentum 0.2 < pT < 50 GeV/c. The full data sample collected by the ALICE detector in 2015 (2010), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 12.7 (2.0) μb−1 in the centrality range 0-80%, is analysed. Flow coefficients up to the sixth flow harmonic (v6) are reported and a detailed comparison among results at the two energies is carried out. The pT dependence of anisotropic flow coefficients and its evolution with respect to centrality and harmonic number n are investigated. An approximate power-law scaling of the form vn(pT) ∼ pTn/3 is observed for all flow harmonics at low pT (0.2 < pT < 3 GeV/c). At the same time, the ratios vn/vmn/ m are observed to be essentially independent of pT for most centralities up to about pT = 10 GeV/c. Analysing the differences among higher-order cumulants of elliptic flow (v2), which have different sensitivities to flow fluctuations, a measurement of the standardised skewness of the event-by-event v2 distribution P(v2) is reported and constraints on its higher moments are provided. The Elliptic Power distribution is used to parametrise P(v2), extracting its parameters from fits to cumulants. The measurements are compared to different model predictions in order to discriminate among initial-state models and to constrain the temperature dependence of the shear viscosity to entropy-density ratio.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].