Non-Gaussian elliptic-flow fluctuations in PbPb collisions at root S-NN=5.02 TeV

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2019
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Event-by-event fluctuations in the elliptic-flow coefficient ({v}{2}) are studied in PbPb collisions at (\sqrt{{s}{\text{NN}}}=5.02) TeV using the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. Elliptic-flow probability distributions (p\left({v}{2}\right)) for charged particles with transverse momentum (0.3<{p}{T}<3.0)(\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\text{GeV}/c) and pseudorapidity (|\eta |<1.0) are determined for different collision centrality classes. The moments of the (p\left({v}{2}\right)) distributions are used to calculate the ({v}{2}) coefficients based on cumulant orders 2, 4, 6, and 8. A rank ordering of the higher-order cumulant results and nonzero standardized skewness values obtained for the (p\left({v}_{2}\right)) distributions indicate non-Gaussian initial-state fluctuations. Bessel–Gaussian and elliptic power fits to the flow distributions are studied to characterize the initial-state spatial anisotropy.

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Event-by-event elliptic flow, Non-Gaussian flow fluctuations, Unfolding, QUARK-GLUON PLASMA, PARTICLE-PRODUCTION, NUCLEAR COLLISIONS, PERSPECTIVE, ANISOTROPY, VISCOSITY, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, Nuclear, Physics, Particles & Fields, Physics
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Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., Brandstetter, J., Brondolin, E., Dragicevic, M., Erö, J., Flechl, M., Friedl, M., Frühwirth, R., Ghete, V. M., Grossmann, J., Hrubec, J., Jeitler, M., König, A., Krammer, N., … Woods, N. (2019). Non-Gaussian elliptic-flow fluctuations in PbPb collisions at \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}= 5.02 TeV. In Physics Letters B (Vol. 789, pp. 643–665). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.11.063