The elliptic flow () of (anti-)3He is measured in Pb–Pb collisions at in the transverse-momentum () range of 2–6 GeV/c for the centrality classes 0–20%, 20–40%, and 40–60% using the event-plane method. This measurement is compared to that of pions, kaons, and protons at the same center-of-mass energy. A clear mass ordering is observed at low , as expected from relativistic hydrodynamics. The violation of the scaling of with the number of constituent quarks at low , already observed for identified hadrons and deuterons at LHC energies, is confirmed also for (anti-)3He. The elliptic flow of (anti-)3He is underestimated by the Blast-Wave model and overestimated by a simple coalescence approach based on nucleon scaling. The elliptic flow of (anti-)3He measured in the centrality classes 0–20% and 20–40% is well described by a more sophisticated coalescence model where the phase-space distributions of protons and neutrons are generated using the iEBE-VISHNU hybrid model with AMPT initial conditions.

Measurement of the (anti-)3He elliptic flow in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV

Barbera, R.;La Rocca, P.;Pinto, C.;Riggi, F.;
2020-01-01

Abstract

The elliptic flow () of (anti-)3He is measured in Pb–Pb collisions at in the transverse-momentum () range of 2–6 GeV/c for the centrality classes 0–20%, 20–40%, and 40–60% using the event-plane method. This measurement is compared to that of pions, kaons, and protons at the same center-of-mass energy. A clear mass ordering is observed at low , as expected from relativistic hydrodynamics. The violation of the scaling of with the number of constituent quarks at low , already observed for identified hadrons and deuterons at LHC energies, is confirmed also for (anti-)3He. The elliptic flow of (anti-)3He is underestimated by the Blast-Wave model and overestimated by a simple coalescence approach based on nucleon scaling. The elliptic flow of (anti-)3He measured in the centrality classes 0–20% and 20–40% is well described by a more sophisticated coalescence model where the phase-space distributions of protons and neutrons are generated using the iEBE-VISHNU hybrid model with AMPT initial conditions.
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