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Longitudinal flow decorrelation in heavy-ion collision at RHIC energies using a multi-phase transport model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-05-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a study on the longitudinal flow decorrelation in heavy-ion collisions at the RHIC Beam Energy Scan (BES) energies (sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 11.5 to 200 GeV in Au+Au collisions) using the AMPT model. We measure the second and third order factorization ratios (r2r_{2} and r3r_{3}) across BES energies, finding r2r_{2} weakly dependent on collision energy while r3r_{3} shows a more prominent collision energy dependent. The effect of parton-parton scattering cross section on r2r_{2} and r3r_{3} is studied which suggests that longitudinal decorrelation could be a potential observable to constrain transport properties of the medium. We also analyze the contributions of flow-plane and flow magnitude decorrelation, with flow-plane decorrelation being dominant. we measure a recently proposed observable, the four particle cumulant (T2T_{2}), which remains resilient to non-flow effects and exhibits sensitivity to different decorrelation patterns. Through the measurement of T2T_{2}, we consistently observe a hint of S-shaped or torqued decorrelation across all energy ranges in peripheral collisions (40-80\%). But in central and mid-central collisions, presence of any specific pattern of decorrelation is missing in AMPT model.

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@article{arxiv.2307.08406,
  title  = {Longitudinal flow decorrelation in heavy-ion collision at RHIC energies using a multi-phase transport model},
  author = {Prabhupada Dixit and Md. Nasim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08406},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages, 8 figures