Abstract
Measurements are presented by the CMS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the higher-order harmonic coefficients that describe the azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles emitted in TeV PbPb collisions. Expressed in terms of the Fourier components of the azimuthal distribution, the –6 harmonic coefficients are presented for charged particles as a function of their transverse momentum (), collision centrality (0%–70%), and pseudorapidity (). The data are analyzed using the event plane, multiparticle cumulant, and Lee-Yang zeros methods, which provide different sensitivities to initial-state fluctuations. Taken together with earlier LHC measurements of elliptic flow (), the results on higher-order harmonic coefficients develop a more complete picture of the collective motion in high-energy heavy-ion collisions and shed light on the properties of the produced medium.
10 More- Received 31 October 2013
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.89.044906
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