Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5494173 | Nuclear Physics A | 2016 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The high abundance of (anti-)deuterons in the statistics gathered in Run 1 of the LHC and the excellent performance of the ALICE setup allow for the simultaneous measurement of the elliptic flow and the deuteron production rates with a large transverse momentum (pT) reach. The (anti-) deuterons are identified using the specific energy loss in the time projection chamber and the velocity information in the time-of-flight detector. The elliptic flow of (anti-)deuterons can provide insight into the production mechanisms of particles in heavy-ion collisions. Quark coalescence is one of the approaches to describe the elliptic flow of hadrons, while the production of light nuclei can be also depicted as a coalescence of nucleons. In these proceedings, the measured v2 of deuterons produced in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76Â TeV will be compared to expectations from coalescence and hydrodynamic models.
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Authors
Ramona Lea, ALICE Collaboration ALICE Collaboration,