Searching for small droplets of hydrodynamic fluid in proton--proton collisions at the LHC

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the hydrodynamic collectivity in high-multiplicity events of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV, using iEBE-VISHNU hybrid model with three different initial conditions, namely, HIJING, super-MC and TRENTo. With properly tuned parameters, hydrodynamic simulations with each initial model give reasonable descriptions of the measured two-particle correlations, including the integrated and $p_{\mathrm{T}}$-differential flow for all charged and identified hadrons. However, the hydrodynamic simulations fail to describe the negative value of the four-particle cumulant $c_2^v\{4\}$ as measured in experiments. Further investigations show that the non-linear response between the elliptic flow $v_2$ and the initial eccentricity ${\epsilon }_2$ becomes significant in the small p-p systems. This leads to a large deviation from linear eccentricity scaling and generates additional flow fluctuations, which results in a positive $c_2^v\{4\}$ even with a negative $c_2^{\epsilon }\{4\}$ from the initial state. We also presented the first hydrodynamic calculations of multi-particle mixed harmonic azimuthal correlations in p-p collisions, such as normalized asymmetric cumulant $na{c}_n\{3\}$, normalized Symmetric-Cumulant, $ns{c}_{2,3}\{4\}$ and $ns{c}_{2,4}\{4\}$. Although many qualitative features are reproduced by the hydrodynamic simulations with chosen parameters, the measured negative $ns{c}_{2,3}\{4\}$ cannot be reproduced. The failure of the description of negative $c_2\{4\}$ and $ns{c}_{2,3}\{4\}$ triggers the question on whether hydrodynamics with a fundamentally new initial state model could solve this puzzle, or hydrodynamics itself might not be the appreciated mechanism of the observed collectivity in p-p collisions at the LHC.

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