Triangular flow in heavy ion collisions in a multiphase transport model
Nuclear Theory
2011-07-21 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We have obtained a new set of parameters in a multiphase transport (AMPT) model that are able to describe both the charged particle multiplicity density and elliptic flow measured in Au+Au collisions at center of mass energy GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), although they still give somewhat softer transverse momentum spectra. We then use the model to predict the triangular flow due to fluctuations in the initial collision geometry and study its effect relative to those from other harmonic components of anisotropic flows on the di-hadron azimuthal correlations in both central and mid-central collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.5187,
title = {Triangular flow in heavy ion collisions in a multiphase transport model},
author = {Jun Xu and Che Ming Ko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.5187},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
7 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, small changes made to the figures and the text, version to appear in Phys. Rev. C