We report on the first measurement of the triangular nu(3), quadrangular nu(4), and pentagonal nu(5) charged particle flow in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV measured with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We show that the triangular flow can be described in terms of the initial spatial anisotropy and its fluctuations, which provides strong constraints on its origin. In the most central events, where the elliptic flow nu(2) and nu(3) have similar magnitude, a double peaked structure in the two-particle azimuthal correlations is observed, which is often interpreted as a Mach cone response to fast partons. We show that this structure can be naturally explained from the measured anisotropic flow Fourier coefficients.

K. AAMODT, B. ABELEV, A. ABRAHANTES QUINTANA, D. ADAMOVÁ, A. M. ADARE, M. M. AGGARWA, et al. (2011). Higher harmonic anisotropic flow measurements of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 107, 1-10 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.032301].

Higher harmonic anisotropic flow measurements of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV.

AGOSTINELLI, ANDREA;A. ALICI;ARCELLI, SILVIA;BASILE, MAURIZIO;BELLINI, FRANCESCA;CIFARELLI, LUISA;FALCHIERI, DAVIDE;GUERZONI, BARBARA;SCIOLI, GILDA;
2011

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We report on the first measurement of the triangular nu(3), quadrangular nu(4), and pentagonal nu(5) charged particle flow in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV measured with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We show that the triangular flow can be described in terms of the initial spatial anisotropy and its fluctuations, which provides strong constraints on its origin. In the most central events, where the elliptic flow nu(2) and nu(3) have similar magnitude, a double peaked structure in the two-particle azimuthal correlations is observed, which is often interpreted as a Mach cone response to fast partons. We show that this structure can be naturally explained from the measured anisotropic flow Fourier coefficients.
2011
K. AAMODT, B. ABELEV, A. ABRAHANTES QUINTANA, D. ADAMOVÁ, A. M. ADARE, M. M. AGGARWA, et al. (2011). Higher harmonic anisotropic flow measurements of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 107, 1-10 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.032301].
K. AAMODT; B. ABELEV; A. ABRAHANTES QUINTANA; D. ADAMOVÁ; A. M. ADARE; M. M. AGGARWA; G. AGLIERI RINELLA; A. G. AGOCS; A. AGOSTINELLI; S. AGUILAR SALA...espandi
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