Elliptic and triangular flow of identified particles at ALICE

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We report on the first measurements of elliptic and triangular flow for charged pions, kaons and anti-protons in lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV measured with the ALICE detector at the LHC.

• We compare the observed mass splitting of differential elliptic flow at LHC energies to RHIC measurements at lower energies and theory predictions.
• We test the quark coalescence picture with the quark number scaling of elliptic and triangular flow.