Anisotropic flows of light-flavor and charmed hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

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Authors: Yanting Feng, Ruiqin Wang, Feng-lan Shao, J. J. Song
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Abstract

We apply a constituent quark equal-velocity combination (EVC) model to study the elliptic flow ( v 2 ) and triangular flow ( v 3 ) of light-flavor and single-charmed hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 and 5.02 TeV. v 2 , 3 of hadrons in the EVC model can be expressed as a linear superposition of the v 2 , 3 of quarks at the same velocity as that of the hadrons. We find that available experimental data for v 2 and v 3 of p , Λ , Ξ , and Ω as a function of transverse momentum ( p T ) can be consistently explained by the EVC formula using the v 2 of up/down quarks and the v 2 of strange quarks. In comparison with v 2 data of ϕ at s N N = 2.76 TeV, which can be naturally explained by the v 2 of strange quarks, explanation of the data of ϕ mesons at s N N = 5.02 TeV requires an additional contribution of two-kaon coalescence, which indicates approximately 20% influence of final-state hadronic rescattering on v 2 of ϕ at s N N = 5.02 TeV. Using v 2 and v 3 of light-flavor quarks obtained in studying light-flavor hadrons and v 2 and v 3 of charm quarks determined from D 0 meson data, we apply the EVC model to predict the anisotropic flows of D s + ,

Fields of Study & Subjects

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Nuclear physics research studies

Publication details

Journal / source
Physical Review C
Volume
114
Issue
4
Publication date
18 September 2026
Language
EN