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Charged-particle nuclear modification factors in XeXe collisions at =5.44 TeV
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CMS Collaboration
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Abstract
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The differential yields of charged particles having pseudorapidity within vertical bar eta vertical bar < 1 are measured using xenon-xenon (XeXe) collisions at root S-NN = 5.44 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.42 mu b(-1), were collected in 2017 by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The yields are reported as functions of collision centrality and transverse momentum, pT, from 0.5 to 100 GeV. A previously reported pT spectrum from proton-proton collisions at root S = 5.02 TeV is used for comparison after correcting for the difference in center-of-mass energy. The nuclear modification factors using this reference, R-AA*, are constructed and compared to previous measurements and theoretical predictions. In head-on collisions, the R-AA* has a value of 0.17 in the pT range of 6-8 GeV, but increases to approximately 0.7 at 100 GeV. Above approximate to 6 GeV, the XeXe data show a notably smaller suppression than previous results for lead-lead (PbPb) collisions at root S-NN = 5.02 TeV when compared at the same centrality (i.e., the same fraction of total cross section). However, the XeXe suppression is slightly greater than that for PbPb in events having a similar number of participating nucleons. |
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of high energy physics. - Bristol
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Publication
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Bristol
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2018
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ISSN
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1126-6708
1029-8479
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DOI
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10.1007/JHEP10(2018)138
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10
(2018)
, 42 p.
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Article Reference
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138
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ISI
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000448434500001
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Medium
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E-only publicatie
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