Observation of Centrality-Dependent Acoplanarity for Muon Pairs Produced via Two-Photon Scattering in Pb plus Pb Collisions at root s(NN)=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS DetectorShow others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 29052018 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 121, no 21, article id 212301Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This Letter presents a measurement of gamma gamma -> mu(+)mu(-)- production in Pb + Pb collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at root s(NN) = 5.02 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 0.49 nb(-1). The azimuthal angle and transverse momentum correlations between the muons are measured as a function of collision centrality. The muon pairs are produced from gamma gamma through the interaction of the large electromagnetic fields of the nuclei. The contribution from background sources of muon pairs is removed using a template fit method. In peripheral collisions, the muons exhibit a strong back-to-back correlation consistent with previous measurements of muon pair production in ultraperipheral collisions. The angular correlations are observed to broaden significantly in central collisions. The modifications arc qualitatively consistent with rescattering of the muons while passing through the hot matter produced in the collision.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
AMER PHYSICAL SOC , 2018. Vol. 121, no 21, article id 212301
National Category
Subatomic Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-372348DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.212301ISI: 000450552800004OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-372348DiVA, id: diva2:1275883
Funder
EU, European Research Council
Note
For complete list of authors see http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.212301
2019-01-072019-01-072019-01-07Bibliographically approved