Event-by-event generation of vorticity in heavy-ion collisions
Nuclear Theory
2017-03-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
In a noncentral heavy-ion collision, the two colliding nuclei have finite angular momentum in the direction perpendicular to the reaction plane. After the collision, a fraction of the total angular momentum is retained in the produced hot quark-gluon matter and is manifested in the form of fluid shear. Such fluid shear creates finite flow vorticity. We study some features of such generated vorticity, including its strength, beam energy dependence, centrality dependence, and spatial distribution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.01801,
title = {Event-by-event generation of vorticity in heavy-ion collisions},
author = {Wei-Tian Deng and Xu-Guang Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01801},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
V1: 4 pages,3 figures. Contribution to the Proceedings of SQM2016, Berkeley, California, USA, June 27 - July 01, 2016