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Data Analysis of LHC Heavy Ion Collision for QGP Study
- 1 Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105
- 2 Laboratory for Particle Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-0845, JP
- 3 School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Abstract
By recreating the first kind of matter in the history of the universe, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), through PbPb collisions, scientists can study the state of the early universe after the big bang. In this paper, the data from PbPb collisions collected by the Alice experiment at Large Hardron Collider is analyzed to investigate the properties of the QGP. The team focused on Fourier decomposition of azimuthal and angular correlation analysis, using data at a center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair. The distributions of the transverse momentum p_T, the pseudo-rapidity η and the azimuth angle ϕ were plotted and analyzed. The shapes of plots didn’t perfectly match the predictions because of data fluctuations and the limitations of detectors. However, the trend of positive correlation between the coefficients and the transverse momentum p_T was found. The results confirm previous research findings on the collective motion and anisotropic flow of QGP. The study provides insights into the QGP's behavior and supports the theoretical predictions about its properties.
Keywords
Quark-gluon plasma (QGP), PbPb collisions, Azimuthal correlations.
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Cao,J.;Li,H.;Liang,H. (2024). Data Analysis of LHC Heavy Ion Collision for QGP Study. Theoretical and Natural Science,56,12-18.
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