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Correlations between azimuthal anisotropy and mean transverse momentum in pp, pPb, and peripheral PbPb collisions
Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
Abstract: Correlations between azimuthal anisotropy and mean transverse momentum of charged particles in proton-proton (pp), proton-lead (pPb), and peripheral lead-lead (PbPb) collisions are presented as a function of charged particle multiplicity. The pp, pPb and PbPb collision data were collected using the CMS detector at the LHC with a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 13, 8.16 and 5.02 TeV, respectively. The two- and four-particle cumulants for the second- and third-order Fourier anisotropy harmonics are correlated with the mean transverse momentum of charged particles on an event-by-event basis. In pp and pPb systems, the observed correlation coefficients based on two-particle cumulants are found to change from negative to positive values as the charged particle multiplicity decreases. The sign changes disappear when the correlated particles are required to be further apart in pseudorapidity. Additionally, no sign changes in correlation coefficients are observed when employing four-particle cumulants. Models incorporating initial-state gluon saturation and final-state hydrodynamic evolutions are compared to pPb data and the predicted sign changes are not observed.
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Figure 1:
The covariances of cumulants from two- and four-particle correlations and $ [p_{\mathrm{T}}] $ as a function of charged particle multiplicity ($ N_\text{ch} $) in 13 TeV pp (left), 8.16 TeV pPb (middle), and 5.02 TeV PbPb (right) collisions. The two-particle cumulants are obtained with $ |\eta| > $ 0.75. The upper (lower) panels show the second (third) harmonics. The error bars correspond to statistical uncertainties, while the shaded areas denote the systematic uncertainties.

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Figure 2:
The correlator using two-particle cumulant from $ |\eta| > $ 0.75 and $ |\eta| > $ 1.0 as a function of $ N_\text{ch} $ in 13 TeV pp (left), 8.16 TeV pPb (middle), and 5.02 TeV PbPb (right) collisions. The upper (lower) panels show the second (third) harmonics. The error bars correspond to the statistical uncertainties, and the shaded areas denote the systematic uncertainties. Calculations from PYTHIAviii (upper left panel, red and black lines) and IP-Glasma+MUSIC+UrQMD (middle panels, blue lines) [40] are compared with the data. Hydrodynamic predictions (lower middle panel, red lines) [67] with an average RMS transverse radius of the initial fireball of either 0.9 or 1.5 fm are also included in the comparison. The magenta lines in the middle and right upper panels represent the ATLAS results [41] in pPb and PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV using $ |\eta| > $ 0.75 with the error bars denoting the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature.
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Table 1:
Average multiplicity of reconstructed tracks per $ N_\mathrm{ch}^\mathrm{rec} $ bin for $ N_\text{ch} $ in this analysis and $ N_\mathrm{trk}^\mathrm{offline} $ in previous CMS measurements [16,19,27] in pp, pPb, and peripheral PbPb collisions. Uncertainties in the tracking efficiency corrected $ N_\text{ch} $ are included.
Summary
In summary, correlations between mean transverse momentum $ [p_{\mathrm{T}}] $ and multiparticle cumulants from two- and four-particle correlations for Fourier harmonics $ n= $ 2 and $ n= $ 3 are presented in proton-proton (pp) collisions at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV, proton-lead (pPb) collisions at $ \sqrt{\smash[b]{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}}}= $ 8.16 TeV and peripheral lead-lead (PbPb) collisions at $ \sqrt{\smash[b]{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}}}= $ 5.02 TeV. Sign changes in the modified linear correlators are observed as a function of charged particle multiplicity when using two-particle cumulants with a minimum $ \eta $ gap of 1.5, in the pp and pPb systems. These sign changes disappear when nonflow effects are suppressed using a minimum $ \eta $ gap of 2.0. To further reduce nonflow contribution, four-particle cumulants $ c_2\{4\} $ are also correlated with $ [p_{\mathrm{T}}] $ which shows no sign change in pp and pPb collisions, similar to the two-particle correlation results with a larger $ \eta $ gap. This indicates that after removing nonflow effects, the sign change predicted at low multiplicity by initial-state saturation is not observed.
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