Charged particle elliptic flow in p+p collisions at LHC energies in a transport model PACIAE

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The parton and hadron cascade model PACIAE based on PYTHIA was used to investigate the charged particle elliptic flow in minimum bias pp collisions at the LHC energies.

• The strings were distributed randomly in the transverse ellipsoid of the pp collision system with major axis of $R$ (proton radius) and minor axis of $R(1-\xi)$ before parton rescattering.
• The charged particle elliptic flow as a function of the random number $\xi$ and transverse momentum $p_T$ were investigated.
• The calculated $v_2/\epsilon$ as a function of reaction energy increases monotonously with increasing reaction energy up to $\sqrt{s}\sim$7 TeV and then turns to saturation.