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We report first STAR measurement on two heavy-flavor particle correlations in p+p collisions at RHIC. Heavy-flavor (charm and bottom) events are identified and separated on a statistical basis by the azimuthal correlation of their decay…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Mischke

Anisotropic azimuthal correlations are used to probe the properties and the evolution of the system created in heavy-ion collisions. Two-particle azimuthal correlations were used in the searches of $p_{\rm T}$ dependent fluctuations of flow…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-03-26 You Zhou

Analyses of two-particle correlations have provided the chief means for determining spatio-temporal characteristics of relativistic heavy ion collisions. We discuss the theoretical formalism behind these studies and the experimental methods…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Mike Lisa , Scott Pratt , Ron Soltz , Urs Wiedemann

In this paper we demonstrate that radiation patterns could cause flow-like behaviour without any reference to hydrodynamic description. For that purpose we use a statistical ensemble of radiating dipoles, motivated by the investigation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-07 T. S. Biró , M. Horváth , Zs. Schram

The anisotropy associated with the initial dipole asymmetry in heavy ion collisions is studied via the two-particle relative azimuthal azimuthal angle (\Delta\phi=\phi^a-\phi^b) correlations, within a multi-phase transport model. For a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-09-17 Jiangyong Jia , Sooraj K. Radhakrishnan , Soumya Mohapatra

We apply principal component analysis to the study of event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This method brings out all the information contained in two-particle correlations in a physically transparent way. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-20 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Subrata Pal , Derek Teaney

The field of relativistic heavy-ion collisions is introduced to the high-energy physics students with no prior knowledge in this area. The emphasis is on the two most important observables, namely the azimuthal collective flow and jet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-17 Rajeev S. Bhalerao

We study the longitudinal decorrelations of elliptic, triangular and quadrangular flows in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC energies. The event-by-event CLVisc (3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamics model, combined with the fully…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Xiang-Yu Wu , Long-Gang Pang , Guang-You Qin , Xin-Nian Wang

We use a simple a transverse radial boost scenario coupled to PYTHIA events to illustrate the impact radial flow may have on two- and three-particle correlation functions measured in heavy-ion collisions. We show that modest radial…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Claude A. Pruneau , Sean Gavin , Sergei A. Voloshin

In heavy-ion ({\it A-A}) collisions, the correlations among the particles produced across wide range in rapidity, probe the early stages of the reaction. The analyses of forward-backward multiplicity correlations in these collisions are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-17 Sudipan De , T. Tarnowsky , T. K. Nayak , R. P. Scharenberg , B. K. Srivastava

The experimental search for the chiral magnetic effect in heavy-ion collisions is based on charge dependent correlations between emitted particles. Recently, a sensitive observable comparing event-by-event distributions of the charge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-21 Piotr Bozek

We explore the dependence of the pT correlations in the event-by-event analysis of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC made recently by the PHENIX and STAR Collaborations. We point out that the observed scaling of strength of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 W. Broniowski , W. Florkowski , B. Hiller , P. Bozek

Two-dimensional angular correlation data from the STAR experiment at RHIC and from the LHC experiments provide critical information about dynamical processes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The principal correlation structures of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-16 R. L. Ray

The analysis of two-particle azimuthal correlation function in p+p and Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) 200 GeV/c is presented. The mean jet fragmentation transverse momentum <|mjTy|> and mean parton transverse momentum <|kTy|> are inferred…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 PHENIX collaboration , J. Rak

In the present work we investigate the source of azimuthal asymmetry for nuclear collision using a model that contemplates particles produced in the initial hard collisions and the collective effects described by a Blast-Wave like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-26 Lucas Soster Moriggi , Érison dos Santos Rocha , Magno Valério Trindade Machado

This article reviews recent advances in our understanding of the experimental aspects of jet-quenching and correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. Emphasis is put on correlation measurements, namely jet-like…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-07-19 Fuqiang Wang

We analyze the multiplicity correlations between distant forward and backward rapidity regions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in a superposition framework, where the particle production occurs through independent emission from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Adam Olszewski , Wojciech Broniowski

Azimuthal correlations are a powerful tool to probe the properties and the evolution of the collision system. In this proceedings, we will review the recent azimuthal correlation measurements from ALICE at the LHC. The comparison to other…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-02-14 You Zhou

We present a complete set of multiparticle correlation observables for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. These include moments of the distribution of the anisotropic flow in a single harmonic, and also mixed moments, which contain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-26 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Subrata Pal

Collective anisotropic flow, where particles are correlated over the entire event, is a prominent phenomenon in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and is sensitive to the properties of the matter created in those collisions. It is often…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-12-19 Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang Wang