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Pseudorapidity distribution and decorrelation of anisotropic flow within CLVisc hydrodynamics

Nuclear Theory 2018-07-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Computational Physics Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

Studies of fluctuations and correlations of soft hadrons and hard and electromagnetic probes of the dense and strongly interacting medium require event-by-event hydrodynamic simulations of high-energy heavy-ion collisions that are computing intensive. We develop a (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model -- CLVisc that is parallelized on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) using Open Computing Language (OpenCL) with 60 times performance increase for space-time evolution and more than 120 times for the Cooper-Frye particlization relative to that without GPU parallelization. The pseudo-rapidity dependence of anisotropic flow vn(η)v_n(\eta) are then computed in CLVisc with initial conditions given by the A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) model, with energy density fluctuations both in the transverse plane and along the longitudinal direction. Although the magnitude of vn(η)v_n(\eta) and the ratios between v2(η)v_2(\eta) and v3(η)v_3(\eta) are sensitive to the effective shear viscosity over entropy density ratio ηv/s\eta_v/s, the shape of the vn(η)v_{n}(\eta) distributions in η\eta do not depend on the value of ηv/s\eta_v/s. The decorrelation of vnv_n along the pseudo-rapidity direction due to the twist and fluctuation of the event-planes in the initial parton density distributions is also studied. The decorrelation observable rn(ηa,ηb)r_n(\eta^a, \eta^b) between vn{ηa}v_n\{-\eta^a\} and vn{ηa}v_n\{\eta^a\} with the auxiliary reference window ηb\eta^b is found not sensitive to ηv/s\eta_v/s when there is no initial fluid velocity. For small ηv/s\eta_v/s, the initial fluid velocity from mini-jet partons introduces sizable splitting of rn(ηa,ηb)r_n(\eta^a, \eta^b) between the two reference rapidity windows ηb[3,4]\eta^b \in [3, 4] and ηb[4.4,5.0]\eta^b \in [4.4, 5.0], as has been observed in experiment. The implementation of CLVisc and guidelines on how to efficiently parallelize scientific programs on GPUs are also provided.

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@article{arxiv.1802.04449,
  title  = {Pseudorapidity distribution and decorrelation of anisotropic flow within CLVisc hydrodynamics},
  author = {Long-Gang Pang and Hannah Petersen and Xin-Nian Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.04449},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

25 pages, 24 figures

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