https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2019-12853-8
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Study of charged particle multiplicity, average transverse momentum and azimuthal anisotropy in Xe+Xe collisions at 
TeV using AMPT model
1
School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, 752050, Jatni, India
2
Experimental Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
* e-mail: bedanga@niser.ac.in
Received:
27
May
2019
Accepted:
8
August
2019
Published online:
20
September
2019
We have studied the average charged particle density (
), transverse momentum (
) spectra, average transverse momentum (
) and azimuthal anisotropies of inclusive charged particles produced in Xe+Xe collisions at 
TeV using A Multiphase Transport Model (AMPT), which includes the deformation of 129Xe nucleus. Calculations have been performed with the string melting version of AMPT model and compared with the recent measurements from the ALICE experiment. The model result overestimates the measured 
for central collisions, agrees with the data for mid-central collisions and underestimates the measurements for the peripheral collisions. The centrality dependence of of charged particles measured in ALICE is not reproduced by the model results. The calculated elliptic flow (
) from AMPT model is larger than the ALICE measurements in central collisions but is consistent with the data for 30-50% collisions centrality. We find that the model shows a mild centrality dependence of triangular flow and overestimates the ALICE measurements. Within the model framework, we have also studied various collision configurations of Xe nuclei such as body-body, tip-tip, side-side and random. We find a strong dependence of the above observable on the collision configurations.
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