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Hydrodynamic Predictions for Mixed Harmonic Correlations in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions

Nuclear Theory 2017-03-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Recent measurements at the LHC involve the correlation of different azimuthal flow harmonics vnv_n. These new observables add constraints to theoretical models and probe aspects of the system that are independent of the traditional single-harmonic measurements such as 2- and multi-particle cumulants vn{m}v_n\{m\}. Many of these new observables have not yet been measured at RHIC, leaving an opportunity to make predictions as a test of models across energies. We make predictions using NeXSPheRIO, a hydrodynamical model which has accurately reproduced a large set of single-harmonic correlations in a large range of transverse momenta and centralities at RHIC. Our predictions thus provide an important baseline for comparison to correlations of flow harmonics, which contain non-trivial information about the initial state as well as QGP transport properties. We also point out significant biases that can appear when using wide centrality bins and non-trivial event weighting, necessitating care in performing experimental analyses and in comparing theoretical calculations to these measurements.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.02982,
  title  = {Hydrodynamic Predictions for Mixed Harmonic Correlations in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions},
  author = {Fernando G. Gardim and Frederique Grassi and Matthew Luzum and Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.02982},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

10 pages, 9 figures; v2 - updated Fig. 4 to include multiplicity weighing in the Event plane correlations