Long-range angular correlations on the near and away side in p-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV

Abelev, B. and Adam, J. and Adamova, D. and Adare, A. M. and Aggarwal, M. and Aglieri, Rinella G. and Agnello, M. and Agócs, András and Agostinelli, A. and Ahammed, Z. and Ahmad, N. and Ahmad, A. and Ahn, S. -A. and Ahn, S. U. and Ajaz, M. and Akindinov, A. and Aleksandrov, D. and Alessandro, B. and Alici, A. and Alkin, A. and Almaraz, Avina E. J. and Alme, J. and Alt, T. and Altini, V. and Altinpinar, S. and Altsybeev, I. and Andrei, C. and Andronic, A. and Anguelov, V. and Anielski, J. and Barnaföldi, Gergely Gábor and Bencédi, Gyula and Berényi, Dániel and Boldizsár, László and Dénes, Ervin and Hamar, Gergő and Lévai, Péter and Molnár, Levente and Pochybova, Sona (2013) Long-range angular correlations on the near and away side in p-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 719 (1-3). pp. 29-41. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

Angular correlations between charged trigger and associated particles are measured by the ALICE detector in p–Pb collisions at a nucleon–nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV for transverse momentum ranges within 0.5 < pT,assoc < pT,trig < 4 GeV/c. The correlations are measured over two units of pseudorapidity and full azimuthal angle in different intervals of event multiplicity, and expressed as associated yield per trigger particle. Two long-range ridge-like structures, one on the near side and one on the away side, are observed when the per-trigger yield obtained in low-multiplicity events is subtracted from the one in high- multiplicity events. The excess on the near-side is qualitatively similar to that recently reported by the CMS collaboration, while the excess on the away-side is reported for the first time. The two-ridge structure projected onto azimuthal angle is quantified with the sec- ond and third Fourier coefficients as well as by near-side and away-side yields and widths. The yields on the near side and on the away side are equal within the uncertainties for all studied event multiplicity and pT bins, and the widths show no significant evolution with event multiplicity or pT. These findings suggest that the near-side ridge is accompanied by an essentially identical away-side ridge.

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