Longitudinal asymmetry and its effect on pseudorapidity distributions in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

0491109 - ÚJF 2019 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Acharya, S. - Adam, J. - Adamová, Dagmar - Bielčík, J. - Bielčíková, Jana - Broz, M. - Contreras, J. G. - Hladký, Jan - Horák, D. - Křížek, Filip - Kučera, Vít - Kushpil, Svetlana - Lavička, R. - Mareš, Jiří A. - Petráček, V. - Šumbera, Michal - Vaňát, Tomáš - Závada, Petr … Total 1012 authors
Longitudinal asymmetry and its effect on pseudorapidity distributions in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV.
Physics Letters. B. Roč. 781, č. 6 (2018), s. 20-32. ISSN 0370-2693. E-ISSN 1873-2445
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LG15052; GA MŠMT(CZ) LTT17018
Institutional support: RVO:68378271 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : ALICE collaboration * heavy ion collisions * density
OECD category: Nuclear physics; Particles and field physics (FZU-D)
Impact factor: 4.162, year: 2018

First results on the longitudinal asymmetry and its effect on the pseudorapidity distributions in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider are obtained with the ALICE detector. The longitudinal asymmetry arises because of an unequal number of participating nucleons from the two colliding nuclei, and is estimated for each event by measuring the energy in the forward neutron-Zero-Degree-Calorimeters (ZNs). The effect of the longitudinal asymmetry is measured on the pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles in the regions vertical bar eta vertical bar < 0.9, 2.8 < eta < 5.1 and -3.7 < eta < -1.7 by taking the ratio of the pseudorapidity distributions from events corresponding to different regions of asymmetry. The coefficients of a polynomial fit to the ratio characterise the effect of the asymmetry. A Monte Carlo simulation using a Glauber model for the colliding nuclei is tuned to reproduce the spectrum in the ZNs and provides a relation between the measurable longitudinal asymmetry and the shift in the rapidity (y(0)) of the participant zone formed by the unequal number of participating nucleons. The dependence of the coefficient of the linear term in the polynomial expansion, c(1), on the mean value of y(0) is investigated.
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