Azimuthal anisotropy of D meson production in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV
B. Abelev
,
G. Conesa Balbastre
(1)
,
J. Faivre
(1)
,
C. Furget
(1)
,
R. Guernane
(1)
,
S. Kox
(1)
,
J.S. Real
(1)
,
C. Silvestre
(1)
,
R. Vernet
(2)
,
I. Belikov
(3)
,
B. Hippolyte
(3)
,
C. Kuhn
(3)
,
L. Molnar
(3)
,
C. Roy
(3)
,
X. Sanchez Castro
(3)
,
Laurent Aphecetche
(4)
,
Guillaume Batigne
(4)
,
H. Delagrange
(4)
,
B. Erazmus
(4)
,
Magali Estienne
(4)
,
Marie Germain
(4)
,
A. Lardeux
(4)
,
Gines Martinez Garcia
(4)
,
J. Martin Blanco
(4)
,
A. Mas
(4)
,
L. Massacrier
(4)
,
Philippe Pillot
(4)
,
Y. Schutz
(4)
,
Alexandre Shabetai
(4)
,
Diego Stocco
(4)
,
M. Wang
(4)
,
C. Ceshkov
(5)
,
B. Cheynis
(5)
,
L. Ducroux
(5)
,
J.-Y. Grossiord
(5)
,
Maxime Guilbaud
(5)
,
R. Tieulent
(5)
,
A. Uras
(5)
,
Y. Zoccarato
(5)
,
Y.W. Baek
(6)
,
V. Barret
(6)
,
N. Bastid
(6)
,
A. Batista Camejo
(6)
,
P. Crochet
(6)
,
P. Dupieux
(6)
,
S. Li
(6)
,
X. Lopez
(6)
,
F. Manso
(6)
,
M. Marchisone
(6)
,
S. Porteboeuf-Houssais
(6)
,
P. Rosnet
(6)
,
L. Valencia Palomo
(6)
,
B. Vulpescu
(6)
,
Z. Conesa Del Valle
(7)
,
I. Das
(7)
,
B. Espagnon
(7)
,
C. Hadjidakis
(7)
,
I. Lakomov
(7)
,
C. Suire
(7)
,
J. D. Tapia Takaki
(7)
,
L. Valencia Palomo
(7)
,
A. Baldisseri
(8)
,
H. Borel
(8)
,
J. Castillo Castellanos
(8)
,
H. Pereira da Costa
(8)
,
A. Rakotozafindrabe
(8)
1
LPSC -
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
2 CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3
3 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
4 SUBATECH - Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes
5 IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon
6 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
7 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay
8 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
2 CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3
3 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
4 SUBATECH - Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes
5 IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon
6 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
7 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay
8 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
B. Abelev
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G. Conesa Balbastre
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J.S. Real
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C. Roy
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Laurent Aphecetche
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Guillaume Batigne
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Magali Estienne
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Marie Germain
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Gines Martinez Garcia
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Philippe Pillot
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Alexandre Shabetai
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Diego Stocco
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B. Cheynis
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Maxime Guilbaud
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Abstract
The production of the prompt charmed mesons D0, D+ and D*+ relative to the reaction plane was measured in Pb-Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon--nucleon collision of sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. D mesons were reconstructed via their hadronic decays at central rapidity in the transverse momentum (pt) interval 2-16 Gev/c. The azimuthal anisotropy is quantified in terms of the second coefficient v_2 in a Fourier expansion of the D meson azimuthal distribution, and in terms of the nuclear modification factor R_AA, measured in the direction of the reaction plane and orthogonal to it. The v_2 coefficient was measured with three different methods and in three centrality classes in the interval 0-50%. A positive v_2 is observed in mid-central collisions (30-50% centrality class), with an mean value of 0.204_{-0.036}^{+0.099},(tot.unc.) in the interval 2 < pt < 6 Gev/c, which decreases towards more central collisions (10-30% and 0-10% classes). The positive v_2 is also reflected in the nuclear modification factor, which shows a stronger suppression in the direction orthogonal to the reaction plane for mid-central collisions. The measurements are compared to theoretical calculations of charm quark transport and energy loss in high-density strongly-interacting matter at high temperature. The models that include substantial elastic interactions with an expanding medium provide a good description of the observed anisotropy. However, they are challenged to simultaneously describe the strong suppression of high-pt yield of D mesons in central collisions and their azimuthal anisotropy in non-central collisions.