Transverse spherocity dependence of azimuthal anisotropy in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC using a multi-phase transport model

Neelkamal Mallick, Raghunath Sahoo, Sushanta Tripathy, Antonio Ortiz
2021 Proceedings of The Ninth Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics — PoS(LHCP2021)   unpublished
One of the event shape observables, the transverse spherocity (S 0 ), has been studied successfully in small collision systems such as proton-proton collisions at the LHC as a tool to separate jetty and isotropic events. It has a unique capability to distinguish events based on their geometrical shapes. In our work, we report the first implementation of transverse spherocity in heavyion collisions using a multi-phase transport model (AMPT). We have performed an extensive study of azimuthal
more » ... tropy of charged particles produced in heavy-ion collisions as a function of transverse spherocity (S 0 ). We have followed the two-particle correlation (2PC) method to estimate the elliptic flow (v 2 ) in different centrality classes in Pb-Pb collisions at √ s NN = 5.02 TeV for high-S 0 , S 0 -integrated and low-S 0 events. We found that transverse spherocity successfully differentiates heavy-ion collisions' event topology based on their geometrical shapes, i.e., high and low values of spherocity. The high-S 0 events have nearly zero elliptic flow, while the low-S 0 events contribute significantly to the elliptic flow of spherocity-integrated events.
doi:10.22323/1.397.0227 fatcat:26zavyslmzflxe2mccozyc5l7y