Thierre Probing collectivity in heavy-ion collisions with fluctuations of the pT spectrum Tribhuban Parida, Rupam Samanta, Jean-Yves Ollitrault Hide abstract | Show figures | Show BibTeX | Show discussion | View PDF | 2407.17313v1 Event-by-event fluctuations in the initial stages of ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions depend little on rapidity. The hydrodynamic expansion which occurs in later stages then gives rise to correlations among outgoing particles which depend weakly on their relative rapidity. Azimuthal correlations, through which anisotropic flow (vn(pT)) is defined, have been the most studied. Here we study a new observable introduced in 2020 by Schenke, Shen and Teaney and dubbed v0(pT), which quantifies the relative change in the pT spectrum induced by a fluctuation. We describe how it can be measured. Using hydrodynamic simulations, we make quantitative predictions for v0(pT) of charged and identified hadrons. We then discuss how v0(pT) relates to two phenomena which have been measured: The increase of the mean transverse momentum in ultracentral collisions, and the event-by-event fluctuations of the transverse momentum per particle [pT]. We show that v0(pT) determines the dependence of these quantities on the pT cuts implemented in the analysis. We quantitatively explain the rise of σpT observed by ATLAS as the upper pT-cut is increased from 2 to 5 GeV/c.