Overview of high-density QCD studies with the CMS experiment at the LHC

CMS collaboration - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
We review key measurements performed by CMS in the context of its heavy ion physics
program, using event samples collected in 2010–2018 with several collision systems and …

A flow paradigm in heavy-ion collisions

L Yan - Chinese Physics C, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The success of hydrodynamics in high energy heavy-ion collisions leads to a flow paradigm,
to understand the observed features of harmonic flow in terms of the medium collective …

Energy dependence and fluctuations of anisotropic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at and 2.76 TeV

S Acharya, FT Acosta, D Adamová, J Adolfsson… - Journal of high energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract Measurements of anisotropic flow coefficients with two-and multi-particle cumulants
for inclusive charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at\(\sqrt {s_ {\mathrm {NN}}}= 5.02\) and …

Azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles with transverse momentum up to 100 GeV/c in PbPb collisions at sNN= 5.02 TeV

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, E Asilar… - Physics Letters B, 2018 - Elsevier
The Fourier coefficients v 2 and v 3 characterizing the anisotropy of the azimuthal
distribution of charged particles produced in PbPb collisions at s NN= 5.02 TeV are …

Linear and cubic response to the initial eccentricity in heavy-ion collisions

J Noronha-Hostler, L Yan, FG Gardim, JY Ollitrault - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We study the relation between elliptic flow, v 2, and the initial eccentricity, ɛ 2, in heavy-ion
collisions, using hydrodynamic simulations. Significant deviations from linear eccentricity …

Non-Gaussian elliptic-flow fluctuations in PbPb collisions at sNN= 5.02 TeV

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - Physics Letters B, 2019 - Elsevier
Event-by-event fluctuations in the elliptic-flow coefficient v 2 are studied in PbPb collisions at
s NN= 5.02 TeV using the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. Elliptic-flow probability …

Relative flow fluctuations as a probe of initial state fluctuations

G Giacalone, J Noronha-Hostler, JY Ollitrault - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
Elliptic flow, v 2, and triangular flow, v 3, are to a good approximation linearly proportional to
the corresponding spatial anisotropies of the initial density profile, ɛ 2 and ɛ 3. Using event …

Measurement of prompt ψ (2S) production cross sections in proton–lead and proton–proton collisions at sNN= 5.02 TeV

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - Physics Letters B, 2019 - Elsevier
Measurements of prompt ψ (2S) meson production cross sections in proton–lead (pPb) and
proton–proton (pp) collisions at a nucleon–nucleon center-of-mass energy of s NN= 5.02 …

Skewness of elliptic flow fluctuations

G Giacalone, L Yan, J Noronha-Hostler, JY Ollitrault - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
Using event-by-event hydrodynamic calculations, we find that the fluctuations of the elliptic
flow (v 2) in the reaction plane have a negative skew. We compare the skewness of v 2 …

Fluctuations of anisotropic flow in Pb+Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract Multi-particle azimuthal cumulants are measured as a function of centrality and
transverse momentum using 470 μb− 1 of Pb+ Pb collisions at\(\sqrt {s_ {\mathrm {NN}}}\)= 5 …