Elliptic flow studies in heavy-ion collisions using the CMS detector

The azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles in heavy ion collisions is an important probe of quark-gluon plasma evolution at early stages. The nuclear reaction plane can be determined independently by different CMS detector subsystems and using different analysis methods. This talk reports the capability of the CMS detector at the LHC to reconstruct the reaction plane of the collision and to measure elliptic flow with calorimetry and a tracking system.