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Azimuthal anisotropy in U+U and Au+Au collisions at RHIC

Collisions between prolate uranium nuclei are used to study how particle production and azimuthal anisotropies depend on initial geometry in heavy-ion collisions. We report the two- and four-particle cumulants, $v_2\{2\}$ and $v_2\{4\}$,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-12-02 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , J. Alford , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , A. Banerjee , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. Bouchet , A. V. Brandin , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , M. C. Cervantes , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , S. Chattopadhyay , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , L. C. De Silva , R. R. Debbe , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , A. A. Derevschikov , B. di Ruzza , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , C. M. Du , L. E. Dunkelberger , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , J. Fedorisin , Z. Feng , P. Filip , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , D. Garand , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , L. Greiner , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , S. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. Hamad , A. Hamed , R. Haque , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , D. J. Hofman , S. Horvat , B. Huang , H. Z. Huang , X. Huang , P. Huck , T. J. Humanic , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , H. Jang , K. Jiang , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , Z. H. Khan , D. P. Kikola , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , D. D. Koetke , T. Kollegger , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , I. Kulakov , L. Kumar , R. A. Kycia , M. A. C. Lamont , J. M. Landgraf , K. D. Landry , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , X. Li , Z. M. Li , Y. Li , W. Li , X. Li , C. Li , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , L. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , A. Manion , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. Masui , H. S. Matis , D. McDonald , K. Meehan , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , B. K. Nandi , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , G. Nigmatkulov , L. V. Nogach , S. Y. Noh , J. Novak , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , V. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. X. Pan , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , A. Peterson , P. Pile , M. Planinic , J. Pluta , N. Poljak , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , M. Posik , A. M. Poskanzer , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. Raniwala , S. Raniwala , R. L. Ray , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , A. Roy , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , I. Sakrejda , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , A. Sarkar , J. Schambach , R. P. Scharenberg , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , M. K. Sharma , B. Sharma , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , L. Song , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stepanov , R. Stock , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , Z. Sun , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , X. Sun , B. Surrow , N. Svirida , M. A. Szelezniak , Z. Tang , A. H. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , A. Tawfik , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , M. Vandenbroucke , R. Varma , A. N. Vasiliev , R. Vertesi , F. Videbæk , Y. P. Viyogi , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , H. Wang , J. S. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , F. Wang , J. C. Webb , G. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. F. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , W. Xie , K. Xin , Y. F. Xu , Q. H. Xu , H. Xu , N. Xu , Z. Xu , Y. Yang , C. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Q. Yang , Z. Ye , P. Yepes , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , J. B. Zhang , Z. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , L. Zhou , X. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva , M. Zyzak

Energy and system-size dependence of two- and four-particle $v_2$ measurements in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and their implications on flow fluctuations and nonflow

We present STAR measurements of azimuthal anisotropy by means of the two- and four-particle cumulants $v_2$ ($v_2\{2\}$ and $v_2\{4\}$) for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at center of mass energies $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}} = 62.4$ and 200…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 The STAR Collaboration , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , A. V. Alakhverdyants , I. Alekseev , J. Alford , B. D. Anderson , C. D. Anson , D. Arkhipkin , G. S. Averichev , J. Balewski , Z. Barnovska , D. R. Beavis , R. Bellwied , M. J. Betancourt , R. R. Betts , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , H. Bichsel , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , W. Borowski , J. Bouchet , A. V. Brandin , S. G. Brovko , E. Bruna , S. Bueltmann , I. Bunzarov , T. P. Burton , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderon , D. Cebra , R. Cendejas , M. C. Cervantes , P. Chaloupka , S. Chattopadhyay , H. F. Chen , J. H. Chen , J. Y. Chen , L. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , A. Chikanian , W. Christie , P. Chung , M. J. M. Codrington , R. Corliss , J. G. Cramer , H. J. Crawford , X. Cui , A. Davila Leyva , L. C. De Silva , R. R. Debbe , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , R. Derradi de Souza , S. Dhamija , L. Didenko , F. Ding , P. Djawotho , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , C. M. Du , L. E. Dunkelberger , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , M. Elnimr , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , L. Eun , O. Evdokimov , R. Fatemi , J. Fedorisin , R. G. Fersch , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , C. A. Gagliardi , D. R. Gangadharan , F. Geurts , P. Ghosh , S. Gliske , Y. N. Gorbunov , O. G. Grebenyuk , D. Grosnick , S. Gupta , W. Guryn , B. Haag , O. Hajkova , A. Hamed , L-X. Han , J. W. Harris , J. P. Hays-Wehle , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , D. J. Hofman , S. Horvat , B. Huang , H. Z. Huang , P. Huck , T. J. Humanic , L. Huo , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , C. Jena , J. Joseph , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , K. Kang , J. Kapitan , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , A. Kesich , D. Kettler , D. P. Kikola , J. Kiryluk , A. Kisiel , V. Kizka , S. R. Klein , D. D. Koetke , T. Kollegger , J. Konzer , I. Koralt , L. Koroleva , W. Korsch , L. Kotchenda , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , L. Kumar , M. A. C. Lamont , J. M. Landgraf , S. LaPointe , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , W. Leight , M. J. LeVine , C. Li , L. Li , W. Li , X. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Z. M. Li , L. M. Lima , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , R. S. Longacre , Y. Lu , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , D. P. Mahapatra , R. Majka , O. I. Mall , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. Masui , H. S. Matis , D. McDonald , T. S. McShane , S. Mioduszewski , M. K. Mitrovski , Y. Mohammed , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , B. Morozov , M. G. Munhoz , M. K. Mustafa , M. Naglis , B. K. Nandi , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , L. V. Nogach , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , A. Ohlson , V. Okorokov , E. W. Oldag , R. A. N. Oliveira , D. Olson , M. Pachr , B. S. Page , S. K. Pal , Pan , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pawlak , H. Pei , C. Perkins , W. Peryt , P. Pile , M. Planinic , J. Pluta , D. Plyku , N. Poljak , J. Porter , A. M. Poskanzer , C. B. Powell , D. Prindle , C. Pruneau , N. K. Pruthi , P. R. Pujahari , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , R. Raniwala , S. Raniwala , R. Redwine , R. Reed , C. K. Riley , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , N. R. Sahoo , I. Sakrejda , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , E. Sangaline , A. Sarkar , J. Schambach , R. P. Scharenberg , A. M. Schmah , N. Schmitz , T. R. Schuster , J. Seele , J. Seger , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , M. Shao , B. Sharma , M. Sharma , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. N. Singaraju , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , D. Solanki , P. Sorensen , U. G. de Souza , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , S. G. Steadman , J. R. Stevens , R. Stock , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , A. A. P. Suaide , M. C. Suarez , M. Sumbera , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , Z. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , T. J. M. Symons , A. Szanto de Toledo , J. Takahashi , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , L. H. Tarini , T. Tarnowsky , D. Thein , J. H. Thomas , J. Tian , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , J. A. Vanfossen, , R. Varma , G. M. S. Vasconcelos , F. Videbaek , Y. P. Viyogi , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , M. Wada , F. Wang , G. Wang , H. Wang , J. S. Wang , Q. Wang , X. L. Wang , Y. Wang , G. Webb , J. C. Webb , G. D. Westfall , C. Whitten , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , W. Witzke , Y. F. Wu , Z. Xiao , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , W. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , L. Xue , Y. Yang , Y. Yang , P. Yepes , Y. Yi , K. Yip , I-K. Yoo , M. Zawisza , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zhan , J. B. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. M. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. P. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , X. Zhu , Y. H. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva

Anisotropic flow at RHIC

We present the first measurement of directed flow ($v_1$) at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). $v_1$ is found to be consistent with zero at pseudorapidities $\eta$ from -1.2 to 1.2, then rises to the level of a couple of percent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 A. H. Tang , STAR Collaboration

Mach Cones in Quark Gluon Plasma

The experimental azimuthal dihadron distributions at RHIC show a double peak structure in the away side ($\Delta \phi = \pi \pm 1.2$ rad.) for intermediate $p_t$ particles. A variety of models have appeared trying to describe this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana

What can we learn from hydrodynamic analysis of elliptic flow?

We can establish a new picture, the perfect fluid sQGP core and the dissipative hadronic corona, of the space-time evolution of produced matter in relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC. It is also shown that the picture works well also…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Tetsufumi Hirano

Anisotropic flow in sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC

The results on elliptic flow in sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported by the ALICE collaboration are remarkably similar to those for sqrt(s)=200 GeV gold-gold collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-26 Bjoern Schenke , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

Azimuthally-sensitive femtoscopy from RHIC to LHC in hydrodynamics with statistical hadronization

Azimuthally-sensitive femtoscopy for heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC is explored within the approach consisting of the hydrodynamics of perfect fluid followed by statistical hadronization. It is found that for the RHIC initial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-22 Adam Kisiel , Wojciech Broniowski , Mikolaj Chojnacki , Wojciech Florkowski

Perfect Fluidity of the Quark Gluon Plasma Core as Seen through its Dissipative Hadronic Corona

The agreement of hydrodynamic predictions of differential elliptic flow and radial flow patterns with Au+Au data is one of the main lines of evidence suggesting the nearly perfect fluid properties of the strongly coupled Quark Gluon Plasma,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tetsufumi Hirano , Miklos Gyulassy

Resummed relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics

In this review, we present the motivation for using relativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics to study the physics of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We then highlight the main ingredients of the 3+1D quasiparticle anisotropic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-30 Huda Alalawi , Mubarak Alqahtani , Michael Strickland

Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of elliptic flow for charged hadrons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV

This paper describes the measurement of elliptic flow for charged particles in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV using the PHOBOS detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The measured azimuthal anisotropy is presented…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 Phobos Collaboration

Early anisotropic hydrodynamics and the RHIC early-thermalization and HBT puzzles

We address the problem if the early thermalization and HBT puzzles in relativistic heavy-ion collisions may be solved by the assumption that the early dynamics of the produced matter is locally anisotropic. The hybrid model describing the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-09-15 Radoslaw Ryblewski , Wojciech Florkowski

Fluid Dynamics Study of the $\Lambda$ Polarization for Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV

With a Yang-Mills field, stratified shear flow initial state and a high resolution (3+1)D Particle-in-Cell Relativistic (PICR) hydrodynamic model, we calculate the $\Lambda$ polarization for peripheral Au+Au collisions at RHIC energy of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Yilong Xie , Dujuan Wang , Laszlo Pal Csernai

Charged particle flow measurement for $|\eta|<5.3$ with the PHOBOS detector

The measurement of elliptic flow for charged particles in Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 130$ GeV using the PHOBOS detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is presented. Charge particle distributions over a wide…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-05-28 Inkyu Park , The PHOBOS Collaboration

Anisotropic flow and flow fluctuations for Au + Au at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV in a multiphase transport model

Anisotropic flow coefficients and their fluctuations are investigated for Au+Au collisions at center of mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV by using a multi-phase transport model with string melting scenario. Experimental results of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 L. Ma , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions: Viscous Hydrodynamic Simulations and Final State Interactions

In this dissertation I introduce relativistic heavy ion collisions and describe theoretical approaches to understanding them--in particular, viscous hydrodynamic simulations and investigations of final state interactions. The successful…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-31 Matthew Luzum

Elliptic Flow in Collisions of Deformed Nuclei

Initial eccentricity of the interacting volume of QCD matter created in collisions of prolate and oblate nuclei is studied using optical Glauber simulation. Collisions of prolate 165-Ho + 165-Ho nuclei and Au+Au nuclei are investigated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-07-27 Peter Filip

Novel mechanism for electric quadrupole moment generation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

We present the spatial distributions of electromagnetic fields ($\bf E$ and $\bf B$) and electromagnetic anomaly $ \bf E \cdot B$ in Au+Au collisions at the RHIC energy $\sqrt{s}$=200 GeV based on a multi-phase transport model. A dipolar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-17 Xin-Li Zhao , Guo-Liang Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

Relativistic hydrodynamics in heavy-ion collisions: general aspects and recent developments

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been quite successful in explaining the collective behaviour of the QCD matter produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. We briefly review the latest developments in the hydrodynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-28 Amaresh Jaiswal , Victor Roy

Heavy ion collisions: Correlations and Fluctuations in particle production

Correlations and fluctuations (the latter are directly related to the 2-particle correlations) is one of the important directions in analysis of heavy ion collisions. At the current stage of RHIC exploration, when the details matter,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 Sergei A. Voloshin

Effects of Momentum Conservation and Flow on Angular Correlations at RHIC

Correlations of azimuthal angles observed at RHIC have gained great attention due to the prospect of identifying fluctuations of parity-odd regions in the field sector of QCD. Whereas the observable of interest related to parity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-02 Scott Pratt , Soeren Schlichting , Sean Gavin