Flow of [phi] mesons in pPb collisions at the LHC with the CMS detector

Measurements of two-particle angular correlations between unidentified charged particles and [phi]-mesons are shown over a wide pseudorapidity range ([delta] [eta] < 2) in pPb collisions. The data, collected during 2013 pPb run at a nucleon-nucleon center-ofmass energy of 5.02 TeV with the CMS detector, corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of aproximately 35nb-1. [Phi]-mesons are reconstructed via their hadronic decay channel, [phi] --> K+K-, for high multiplicity events. The observed two-particle long range correlations are quantified by the second-order Fourier coefficients (v2) as a function of transverse momentum. The v2 of [phi]-mesons is compared to that of other identified particles, to study the mass ordering and quark number scaling effects in measurements of elliptic flow.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Varma, Mukund Madhav

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Gunther Roland.

• Physics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99277

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/99277