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Rapidity decorrelation of anisotropic flow caused by hydrodynamic fluctuations

Nuclear Theory 2020-12-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We investigate the effect of hydrodynamic fluctuations on the rapidity decorrelations of anisotropic flow in high-energy nuclear collisions using a (3+1)-dimensional integrated dynamical model. The integrated dynamical model consists of twisted initial conditions, fluctuating hydrodynamics, and hadronic cascades on an event-by-event basis. To understand the rapidity decorrelation, we analyze the factorization ratio in the longitudinal direction. Comparing the factorization ratios between fluctuating hydrodynamics and ordinary viscous hydrodynamics, we find a sizable effect of hydrodynamic fluctuations on rapidity decorrelations. We also propose to calculate the Legendre coefficients of the flow magnitude and the event-plane angle to understand the decorrelation of anisotropic flow in the longitudinal direction.

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@article{arxiv.2003.13496,
  title  = {Rapidity decorrelation of anisotropic flow caused by hydrodynamic fluctuations},
  author = {Azumi Sakai and Koichi Murase and Tetsufumi Hirano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13496},
  year   = {2020}
}

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15 pages, 10 figures

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