dc.creator | Tuo, Shengquan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T21:15:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-16 | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-03-20 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-03192015-152905 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10900 | |
dc.description.abstract | The azimuthal correlations of charged particles produced in lead-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV and proton-lead collisions at 5.02 TeV have been measured using multiparticle correlations. In PbPb collisions, the second, fourth and sixth Fourier coefficients of the charged-particle azimuthal distributions are studied as a function of the particle transverse momentum, pseudorapidity, and collision centrality. The results from several experimental methods that have different sensitivity to the fluctuations in the initial-state of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions are compared. The combined results provide access to the properties of the quark-gluon plasma through comparisons with the predictions of viscous hydrodynamic calculations. A near-perfect fluid behavior is observed in PbPb collisions at $sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV at the LHC, similar to previous findings at lower center-of-mass energies from RHIC. The system-size dependence of the collective flow is studied in peripheral PbPb collisions and in high-multiplicity pPb collisions. Remarkable similarities are found when the two systems are compared for collisions with the same final-state particle multiplicity. Four-particle correlations emerge in pPb collisions with more than 40 particles detected in the final state. The elliptic anisotropies derived from four-particle or all-particle correlations are found to agree within 10\%, which indicates a high degree of collectivity in high-multiplicity pPb collisions and might be an evidence for the smallest liquid droplet ever produced in the laboratory. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | Heavy ion collision | |
dc.subject | Multiparticle Correlation | |
dc.subject | LHC | |
dc.subject | Flow | |
dc.subject | CMS | |
dc.title | Multiparticle Azimuthal Correlation Measurements in Lead-Lead and Proton-Lead Collisions at LHC with the CMS Detector | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Senta Greene | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Will Johns | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Robert Scherrer | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Akram Aldroubi | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Physics | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2015-09-16 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2015-09-16 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Julia Velkovska | |