Enhanced hydrodynamic predictions for $v_{02}(p_T)$

Abstract

We present hydrodynamic predictions for the new observable $v_{02}(p_T)$, which measures the correlation of particle spectra with elliptic flow. We implement a data-driven correction so as to match hydrodynamic calculations to elliptic flow ($v_2(p_T)$) data. The corrected results are in fair agreement with $v_0(p_T)$ data up to high $p_T$. We make predictions for $v_{02}(p_T)$ of unidentified charged hadrons up to $p_T=10$~GeV$/c$, and of pions, kaons and protons up to $p_T=5-6$~GeV$/c$, in several centrality windows, for Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$~TeV. For $p_T>4$~GeV$/c$, we predict a decrease of $v_{02}(p_T)$ of charged hadrons in mid-central collisions, and meson-baryon splitting. We also predict a non-monotonic variation of $v_{02}(p_T)$ for protons at low $p_T$ above $30\%$ centrality. This is a specific feature of this new observable, which is not observed for the usual flow observables $v_2(p_T)$ and $v_0(p_T)$.

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures