Results on flow from the ALICE Collaboration

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent ALICE Collaboration results on particle flow, azimuthal correlations, and introduces event shape engineering to analyze collision events with varying flow characteristics.

Contribution

It presents new experimental results on anisotropic flow and azimuthal correlations, and introduces the novel technique of event shape engineering for detailed event analysis.

Findings

Measurements of anisotropic flow at 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions.

Charge dependent and event plane dependent azimuthal correlations.

Implementation of event shape engineering technique.

Abstract

This short overview includes recent results from the ALICE Collaboration on anisotropic flow of charged and identified particles in sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions. We also discuss charge dependent and event plane dependent azimuthal correlations that are important in tests of the chiral magnetic effect, as well as understanding the dynamics of the system evolution and hadronization process. Lastly, we present ALICE results obtained with a new technique, the event shape engineering, which allows to perform a physical analysis on events with very large or small flow.