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Triangular flow of negative pions emitted in PbAu collisions at sNN=17.3 GeV

  • D. Adamová
  • , G. Agakichiev
  • , A. Andronic
  • , D. Antończyk
  • , H. Appelshäuser
  • , V. Belaga
  • , J. Bielčíková
  • , P. Braun-Munzinger
  • , O. Busch
  • , A. Cherlin
  • , S. Damjanović
  • , T. Dietel
  • , L. Dietrich
  • , A. Drees
  • , W. Dubitzky
  • , S. I. Esumi
  • , K. Filimonov
  • , K. Fomenko
  • , Z. Fraenkel
  • , C. Garabatos
  • P. Glässel, G. Hering, J. Holeczek, M. Kalisky, Iu Karpenko, G. Krobath, V. Kushpil, A. Maas, A. Marín, J. Milošević, D. Miśkowiec, Y. Panebrattsev, O. Petchenova, V. Petráček, S. Radomski, J. Rak, I. Ravinovich, P. Rehak, H. Sako, W. Schmitz, S. Schuchmann, S. Sedykh, S. Shimansky, J. Stachel, M. Šumbera, H. Tilsner, I. Tserruya, G. Tsiledakis, J. P. Wessels, T. Wienold, J. P. Wurm, S. Yurevich, V. Yurevich
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • University of Tsukuba
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • University of Jyväskylä
  • University of Cape Town
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Heidelberg University 
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • University of Münster
  • University of Belgrade
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Abstract

Differential triangular flow, v3(pT), of negative pions is measured at sNN=17.3 GeV around midrapidity by the CERES/NA45 experiment at CERN in central PbAu collisions in the range 0–30% with a mean centrality of 5.5%. This is the first measurement as a function of transverse momentum of the triangular flow at SPS energies. The pT range extends from about 0.05 GeV/c to more than 2 GeV/c. The triangular flow magnitude, corrected for the HBT effects, is smaller by a factor of about 2 than the one measured by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC and the ALICE experiment at the LHC. Within the analyzed range of central collisions no significant centrality dependence is observed. The data are found to be well described by a viscous hydrodynamic calculation combined with an UrQMD cascade model for the late stages.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-108
Number of pages10
JournalNuclear Physics, Section A
Volume957
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2017

Keywords

  • Heavy-ion
  • SPS
  • Triangular flow

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