Measurement of the Azimuthal Anisotropy of Neutral Pions in Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN =2.76  TeV

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First measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy of neutral pions produced in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √sNN=2.76  TeV are presented. The amplitudes of the second Fourier component (v2) of the π0 azimuthal distributions are extracted using an event-plane technique. The values of v2 are studied as a function of the neutral pion transverse momentum (pT) for different classes of collision centrality in the kinematic range 1.6<pT<8.0  GeV/c, within the pseudorapidity interval |η|<0.8. The CMS measurements of v2(pT) are similar to previously reported π0 azimuthal anisotropy results from √sNN=200  GeV Au-Au collisions at RHIC, despite a factor of ∼14 increase in the center-of-mass energy. In the momentum range 2.5<pT<5.0  GeV/c, the neutral pion anisotropies are found to be smaller than those observed by CMS for inclusive charged particles.

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Adair, A., Boulahouache, C., Ecklund, K.M., et al.. "Measurement of the Azimuthal Anisotropy of Neutral Pions in Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN =2.76  TeV." Physical Review Letters, 110, no. 4 (2013) American Physical Society: 42301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.042301.

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