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New measures of longitudinal decorrelation of harmonic flow

Nuclear Theory 2019-02-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Harmonic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is observed in a broad range of rapidities, and the flow at different rapidities is correlated. However, fluctuations lead to a small decorrelation of the harmonic flow magnitudes and flow angles at different rapidities. Using a hydrodynamic model with Glauber Monte Carlo initial conditions we show that the flow angle decorrelation strongly depends on the flow magnitude in the event. We propose observables to measure this effect in experiment.

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@article{arxiv.1807.05391,
  title  = {New measures of longitudinal decorrelation of harmonic flow},
  author = {Piotr Bozek and Wojciech Broniowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.05391},
  year   = {2019}
}

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talk given at XXVIIth International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collision Quark Matter 2018