Long-range two-particle correlations of strange hadrons with charged particles in pPb and PbPb collisions at LHC energies

Khachatryan, V. and Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. and Adam, W. and Bergauer, T. and Filipovic, Nicolas and Bencze, György and Hajdú, Csaba and Hidas, Pál and Horváth, Dezső and Siklér, Ferenc and Veszprémi, Viktor and Vesztergombi, György and Zsigmond, Anna Júlia and Karancsi, János and Molnár, József and Pálinkás, József and Trócsányi, Zoltán and Ujvári, Balázs and Veres, Gábor (2015) Long-range two-particle correlations of strange hadrons with charged particles in pPb and PbPb collisions at LHC energies. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 742. pp. 200-224. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

Measurements of two-particle angular correlations between an identified strange hadron (K0 S or Λ/Λ) and a charged particle, emitted in pPb collisions, are presented over a wide range in pseudorapidity and full azimuth. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 35 nb−1, were collected at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy (√sNN ) of 5.02 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The re- sults are compared to semi-peripheral PbPb collision data at √sNN = 2.76 TeV, cov- ering similar charged-particle multiplicities in the events. The observed azimuthal correlations at large relative pseudorapidity are used to extract the second-order (v2) and third-order (v3) anisotropy harmonics of K0 S and Λ/Λ particles. These quanti- ties are studied as a function of the charged-particle multiplicity in the event and the transverse momentum of the particles. For high-multiplicity pPb events, a clear parti- cle species dependence of v2 and v3 is observed. For pT < 2 GeV, the v2 and v3 values of K0 S particles are larger than those of Λ/Λ particles at the same pT. This splitting effect between two particle species is found to be stronger in pPb than in PbPb col- lisions in the same multiplicity range. When divided by the number of constituent quarks and compared at the same transverse kinetic energy per quark, both v2 and v3 for K0 S particles are observed to be consistent with those for Λ/Λ particles at the 10% level in pPb collisions. This consistency extends over a wide range of particle transverse kinetic energy and event multiplicities.

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