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On feasibility of azimuthal flow studies with Principal Component Analysis

Nuclear Theory 2020-08-28 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

It is shown that the Principal Component Analysis applied to azimuthal single-particle distributions allows to perform flow analysis in ways that are analogous to the traditional approaches based on multi-particle correlations. In particular, symmetric cumulants are considered. It is demonstrated also that statistical fluctuations due to a finite number of particles per event practically do not play a role for higher order PCA-based cumulants.

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@article{arxiv.2007.12524,
  title  = {On feasibility of azimuthal flow studies with Principal Component Analysis},
  author = {Igor Altsybeev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12524},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures. Presented at WWND-2020