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Fluctuations in nucleon positions can affect the spatial eccentricity of the overlap zone in nucleus-nucleus collisions. We show that elliptic flow should be scaled by different eccentricities depending on which method is used for the flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Peculiar phenomena have been observed in analyses of anisotropic flow ($v_n$) fluctuations in ultracentral nucleus-nucleus collisions: The fourth-order cumulant of the elliptic flow ($v_2$) distribution changes sign. In addition, the ATLAS…

Measurements of transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) and pseudorapidity ($\eta$) dependent flow vector fluctuations in p$-$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} = 5.02$ TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider are presented. By studying…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-02-12 ALICE Collaboration

Recent measurements of jet production rates at large transverse momentum ($p_T$) in the collisions of small projectiles with large nuclei at RHIC and the LHC indicate that they have an unexpected relationship with estimates of the collision…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-31 D. McGlinchey , J. L. Nagle , D. V. Perepelitsa

Non-statistical event-by-event mean-pt fluctuations in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 and 200 GeV are analyzed in AMPT with string-melting, and the results are compared with STAR data. The analysis suggests that in-medium elastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Qing-Jun Liu , Wei-Qin Zhao

The elliptic flows of thermal di-electrons are investigated within a (2+1)-dimension event-by-event hydrodynamic model for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV. The fluctuating initial conditions are given by the Monte Carlo Glauber…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-15 Hao-jie Xu , Longgang Pang , Qun Wang

Simulated results from a 2+1D relativistic viscous hydrodynamic model have been compared to the experimental data on the centrality dependence of invariant yield, elliptic flow ($v_{2}$), and hexadecapole flow ($v_{4}$) as a function of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-30 Victor Roy , A. K. Chaudhuri , Bedangadas Mohanty

We investigate the role of the central two-body nucleon-nucleon correlations on typical quantities observed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Basic correlation measures, such as the fluctuations of the participant eccentricity, initial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-30 Maciej Rybczynski , Wojciech Broniowski

The second and fourth Fourier harmonic of the azimuthal distribution of particles, $v_2$ and $v_4$, have been measured in Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The harmonic $v_4$ is mainly induced from $v_2$ as a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Clement Gombeaud , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

In event by event hydrodynamic model, we have simulated 30-40\% Au+Au collisions at RHIC and computed the slope parameter from the invariant pion distribution. In each event, the slope parameter fluctuates azimuthally. Fourier expansion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-20 A. K. Chaudhuri

Event-by-event fluctuating initial conditions (IC) in the ideal hydrodynamic calculation are known to enhance the production of thermal photons significantly compared to a smooth initial state averaged profile in the range $p_T >$ 1 GeV/$c$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-07-31 Rupa Chatterjee , Hannu Holopainen , Thorsten Renk , Kari J. Eskola

Event-by-event fluctuations are central to the current understanding of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. In particular, fluctuations in the geometry of the early-time collision system are responsible for new phenomena such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-11-03 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Matthew Luzum , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Correlations between mean transverse momentum $[p_{\rm T}]$ and anisotropic flow coefficients $v_{\rm 2}$ or $v_{\rm 3}$ are measured as a function of centrality in Pb$-$Pb and Xe$-$Xe collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV and 5.44…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-12-02 ALICE Collaboration

This Letter reports on the first measurements of transverse momentum dependent flow angle $\Psi_n$ and flow magnitude $v_n$ fluctuations, determined using new four-particle correlators. The measurements are performed for various…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-06-22 ALICE Collaboration

The cumulants of the distribution of anisotropic flow are measured accurately in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC as a function of centrality classifiers (charged multiplicity and/or transverse energy). Using Bayesian inference, we reconstruct…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Enak Roubertie , Mathis Verdan , Andreas Kirchner , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Elliptic flow holds much promise for studying the early-time thermalization attained in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. Flow measurements also provide a means of distinguishing between hydrodynamic models and calculations which…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 STAR collaboration

We investigate the correlation between various aspects of the initial geometry of heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energies and the final anisotropic flow, using v-USPhydro, a 2+1 event-by-event viscous…

We analyze the proton-lead collisions at the LHC energy of 5.02TeV in the three-stage approach, previously used to successfully describe the relativistic A-A collisions. The approach consists of the early phase, modeled with the Glauber…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-15 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

As one of the possible signals for the whereabouts of the critical point on the QCD phase diagram, recently, the multiplicity fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions have aroused much attention. It is a crucial observable of the Beam Energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-24 Hong-Hao Ma , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang

We use perfect-fluid hydrodynamical model to predict the elliptic flow coefficients in Pb + Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The initial state for the hydrodynamical calculation for central $A + A$ collisions is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-04 H. Niemi , K. J. Eskola , P. V. Ruuskanen