Performance studies of anisotropic flow with MPD at NICA
Abstract
The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) at NICA collider has a substantial discovery potential concerning the exploration of the QCD phase diagram in the region of high net-baryon densities and moderate temperatures. The anisotropic transverse flow is one of the key observables to study the properties of dense matter created in heavy-ion collisions. The MPD performance for anisotropic flow measurements is studied with Monte-Carlo simulations of gold ions at NICA energies GeV using different heavy-ion event generators. Different combinations of the MPD detector subsystems are used to investigate the possible systematic biases in flow measurements, and to study effects of detector azimuthal non-uniformity. The resulting performance of the MPD for flow measurements is demonstrated for directed and elliptic flow of identified charged hadrons as a function of rapidity and transverse momentum in different centrality classes.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1901.03125,
title = {Performance studies of anisotropic flow with MPD at NICA},
author = {Petr Parfenov and Arkadiy Taranenko and Ilya Selyuzhenkov and Peter Senger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03125},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the Baldin ISHEPP XXIV (Dubna, 17-22 September 2018), EPJ Web of Conferences