
Collectivity in small and large collision systems at the LHC with ALICE
Author(s) -
K. Gajdosova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1271/1/012002
Subject(s) - physics
Interactions of protons (pp) or of a proton with a lead nucleus (p–Pb) were not expected to form a deconfined hot and dense matter, called the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), which is instead produced in heavy-ion collisions. However, high-multiplicity events in small collision systems exhibit signs of collectivity, which are understood as a signature of the QGP emergence in heavy-ion collisions. An excellent tool to probe the presence of collectivity is the anisotropic flow measured with two- and multi-particle cumulants. In these proceedings, we present the first measurement of flow coefficients and their magnitude correlations using symmetric cumulants for charged particles in pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies of s = 13 TeV , p–Pb at S N N = 5.02 TeV , Xe–Xe at S N N = 5.44 TeV and Pb–Pb collisions at S N N = 5.02 TeV , collected during the LHC Run 2 programme. In addition, the flow coefficients of identified particles in p–Pb collisions are shown. Such a broad spectrum of colliding systems with different energies and a wide range of multiplicity allows for a detailed investigation of their collision dynamics. Non-flow effects, which are azimuthal correlations not originating from a common symmetry plane, are suppressed with the pseudorapidity separation and the subtraction method. These results provide an important insight into the nature of collective phenomena in different collision systems.