@Article{ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2018,
author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al
and Alvarez Piqueras, D.
and Barranco Navarro, L.
and Cabrera Urban, S.
and Castillo Gimenez, V.
and Cerda Alberich, L.
and Costa, M. J.
and Escobar, C.
and Estrada Pastor, O.
and Fernandez Martinez, P.
and Ferrer, A.
and Fiorini, L.
and Fuster, J.
and Garcia, C.
and Garcia Navarro, J. E.
and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
and Higon-Rodriguez, E.
and Jimenez Pena, J.
and Lacasta, C.
and Madaffari, D.
and Mamuzic, J.
and Marti-Garcia, S.
and Melini, D.
and Mitsou, V. A.
and Pedraza Lopez, S.
and Rodriguez Bosca, S.
and Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
and Romero Adam, E.
and Salt, J.
and Soldevila, U.
and Sanchez, J.
and Valero, A.
and Valls Ferrer, J. A.
and Vos, M.",
title="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 Detector",
journal="Physical Review Letters",
year="2018",
publisher="Amer Physical Soc",
volume="121",
number="21",
pages="212301--21pp",
abstract="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.",
optnote="WOS:000450552800004",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3810), last updated on Mon, 03 Dec 2018 19:32:58 +0000",
issn="0031-9007",
doi="10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.212301",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08708",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.212301",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="1806.08708",
language="English"
}