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It is demonstrated using Monte Carlo simulation that in different nucleus$-$nucleus collision samples, the increase of the fluctuation of event factorial moments with decreasing phase space scale, called erraticity, is still dominated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Liu Fuming , Liao Hongbo , Liu Ming , Liu Feng , Liu Lianshou

Since their discovery, fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions have been understood as originating mostly from the random positions of nucleons within the colliding nuclei. We consider an alternative approach where all the…

Multiplicity distributions of hadrons produced in central nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied within the hadron-resonance gas model in the large volume limit. In the canonical ensemble conservation of three charges (baryon number,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Hauer , V. V. Begun , M. Gazdzicki , M. I. Gorenstein , V. P. Konchakovski , B. Lungwitz

Glauber models are used to calculate geometric quantities in the initial state of heavy ion collisions, such as impact parameter, number of participating nucleons and initial eccentricity. Experimental heavy-ion collaboration, in particular…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-15 C. Loizides , J. Nagle , P. Steinberg

Non-trivial geometrical effects in relativistic central collisions of deformed nuclei are studied using a simple version of optical Glauber model. For very small impact parameters large centrality and eccentricity fluctuations are observed.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Filip

We compute predictions for various low-transverse-momentum bulk observables in $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.023$ TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC from the event-by-event next-to-leading-order perturbative-QCD + saturation + viscous hydrodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-03 H. Niemi , K. J. Eskola , R. Paatelainen , K. Tuominen

In the framework of the classical Glauber approach the exact analytical expression for the variance of the number of participants (wounded nucleons) for given centrality AA interactions is presented. It's shown, that in the case of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Vechernin

We study within the IP-Glasma and two-component MC-Glauber models the effects of initial state geometry and fluctuations on multiplicities and eccentricities for several collision species at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). These…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-11 Bjoern Schenke , Prithwish Tribedy , Raju Venugopalan

The accuracy of Monte Carlo Glauber model descriptions of minimum-bias multiplicity frequency distributions is evaluated using data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) within the context of a sensitive, power-law representation…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 R. L. Ray , M. Daugherity

Multiplicity fluctuations at midrapidity in p+p collisions at high energies are described by a negative binomial distribution and exhibit approximate Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling. We find that these KNO fluctuations are important also…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-04-23 Adrian Dumitru , Yasushi Nara

The charged hadron multiplicity fluctuations are considered in the canonical ensemble. The microscopic correlator method is extended to include three conserved charges: baryon number, electric charge and strangeness. The analytical formulae…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. V. Begun , M. I. Gorenstein , M. Hauer , V. P. Konchakovski , O. S. Zozulya

Strong modification of event-by-event fluctuations in global observables was proposed by several authors as an indicator of the phase transition in system evolution. We report the results of the analysis of STAR TPC data on the charged…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Sergei A. Voloshin

We present a comprehensive study of event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in nucleon-nucleon and nucleus-nucleus interactions from AGS/FAIR to RHIC energies within the UrQMD transport approach. The scaled variances of negative, positive,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Benjamin Lungwitz , Marcus Bleicher

We show that the centrality dependence of the multiplicity is identical in Pb+Pb and Xe+Xe collisions at the LHC, up to a constant factor. This geometric scaling is revealed if one defines centrality according to impact parameter, as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Rudolph Rogly , Giuliano Giacalone , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We discuss different sources of fluctuations in nuclear collisions and their realization in the IP-Glasma model. We present results for multiplicity distributions in p+p and p+A collisions and compare eccentricity distributions in A+A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Bjoern Schenke , Prithwish Tribedy , Raju Venugopalan

Within a thermal model we estimate possible multiplicities of scalar glueballs in central Au+Au collisions at AGS, SPS, RHIC and LHC energies. For the glueball mass in the region 1.5-1.7 GeV, the model predicts on average (per event)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 I. N. Mishustin , L. M. Satarov , W. Greiner

The relative correlation between the magnitudes of elliptic flow ($v_2$) and triangular flow ($v_3$) has been accurately measured in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC collider. As a function of the centrality of the collision, it…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Mubarak Alqahtani , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

The ALICE collaboration measured charged particle production in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV Pb--Pb collisions at the LHC. We report on results on charged particle multiplicity and transverse momentum spectra. All the results are presented as a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 M. Floris

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

Particle number fluctuations and correlations in nucleus-nucleus collisions at SPS and RHIC energies are studied within the statistical hadron-resonance gas model in different statistical ensembles and in the Hadron-String-Dynamics (HSD)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-09 V. P. Konchakovski , M. Hauer , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya