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Collectivity in large and small systems formed in ultrarelativistic collisions

Nuclear Theory 2021-06-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Collective flow of the final-state hadrons observed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions or even in smaller systems formed in high-multiplicity pp and p/d/3^3He-nucleus collisions is one of the most important diagnostic tools to probe the initial state of the system and to shed light on the properties of the short-lived, strongly-interacting many-body state formed in these collisions. Limited, in the initial years, to the study of mainly the directed and elliptic flows -- the first two Fourier harmonics of the single-particle azimuthal distribution -- this field has evolved in recent years into a much richer area of activity. This includes not only higher Fourier harmonics and multiparticle cumulants, but also a variety of other related observables, such as the ridge seen in two-particle correlations, flow decorrelation, symmetric cumulants and event-plane correlators which measure correlations between the magnitudes or phases of the complex flows in different harmonics, coefficients that measure the nonlinear hydrodynamic response, statistical properties, such as the non-Gaussianity of the flow fluctuations, etc. We present a Tutorial Review of the modern flow picture and the various aspects of the collectivity -- an emergent phenomenon in quantum chromodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2009.09586,
  title  = {Collectivity in large and small systems formed in ultrarelativistic collisions},
  author = {Rajeev S Bhalerao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.09586},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Invited review article for EPJ ST, pedagogical review article, 34 pages, 14 Figs, 14 Exercises, comments welcome