Fluctuating initial condition and smoothening effect on elliptic and triangular flow
Nuclear Experiment
2015-06-04 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In heavy ion collisions, event-by-event fluctuations in participating nucleon positions can lead to triangular flow. Generally, one uses Monte-Carlo Glauber model to obtain the participating nucleon positions. To use in a hydrodynamic model, the positions needs to be smoothened. We study the effect of smoothening of Glauber Monte-Carlo initial conditions on elliptic and triangular flow. It is shown that integrated as well as differential elliptic and triangular flow remain largely unaltered, irrespective of functional form of the smoothening function, or the smoothening parameter
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.2986,
title = {Fluctuating initial condition and smoothening effect on elliptic and triangular flow},
author = {Md. Rihan Haque and Victor Roy and A. K. Chaudhuri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2986},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures