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We study fluctuations and correlations of the average transverse momentum of particles emitted in heavy-ion collisions. Fluctuations of the average transverse momentum are related to event-by-event fluctuations of the size and entropy of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-17 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski , Sandeep Chatterjee

We discuss various sources of azimuthal correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The integral measure Phi is applied to quantify the correlations. We first consider separately the correlations caused by the elliptic flow,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Tomasz Cetner , Katarzyna Grebieszkow , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

It is well understood that subnuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions have an important impact on the creation of long-range correlations in the transverse plane. This is also true for the creation of particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Sören Schlichting , Jie Zhu

We have developed a relativistic kinetic transport approach that incorporates initial state fluctuations allowing to study the build up of elliptic flow $v_2$ and high order harmonics $v_3$, $v_4$ and $v_5$ for a fluid at fixed $\eta/s(T)$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-23 Salvatore Plumari , Giovanni Luca Guardo , Francesco Scardina , Vincenzo Greco

In this paper, a search for power-law fluctuations with fractality and intermittency analysis to explore the QCD phase diagram and the critical point is summarized. Experimental data on self-similar correlations and fluctuations with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Zhiming Li

Experimental data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggests that the quark gluon plasma behaves almost like an ideal fluid. Due to its short lifetime, many QGP properties can only be inferred indirectly through a comparison…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Hannah Petersen , Rolando La Placa , Steffen A. Bass

Two-particle, pair-number correlation distributions on two-dimensional transverse momentum ($p_{t1},p_{t2}$) constructed from the particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions allow access to dynamical processes in these systems…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-27 R. L. Ray , A. Jentsch

The observation in small size collision systems, $pp$ and $p$A, of strong correlations with long range in rapidity and a characteristic structure in azimuth, the ridge phenomenon, is one of the most interesting results obtained at the Large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-22 Tolga Altinoluk , Néstor Armesto

Higher order Fourier coefficients of the azimuthally dependent single particle spectra resulting from noncentral heavy ion collisions are investigated. For intermediate to large transverse momenta, these anisotropies are expected to become…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter F. Kolb

Higher order symmetric cumulants of global collective observables in heavy ion collisions are studied. The symmetric cumulants can be straightforwardly constructed for scalar observables: the average transverse momentum, the multiplicity,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-21 Piotr Bozek , Rupam Samanta

Observables of heavy-quark azimuthal correlations in heavy-ion collisions are a new and promising tool for the investigation of the in-medium energy loss. We explore the potential of these observables to discriminate the collisional and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Marlene Nahrgang , Jörg Aichelin , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner

The event-by-event azimuthal fluctuations in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are analyzed by means of the so-called Phi-measure. The fluctuations due to the collective transverse flow and those caused by the quantum statistics and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

In this talk we present results obtained when fluid dynamical fluctuations are included in relativistic $3+1$ dimensional viscous fluid dynamics. We discuss effects of the interactions of fluctuations due to nonlinearities and the cutoff…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-13 Marlene Nahrgang , Marcus Bluhm , Thomas Schäfer , Steffen Bass

We evaluate the effects of preequilibrium dynamics on observables in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We simulate the initial nonequilibrium phase within A MultiPhase Transport (AMPT) model, while the subsequent near-equilibrium…

The correlation between the mean transverse momentum and the harmonic flow coefficients is an observable which is of great interest; it is sensitive to shape fluctuations in the initial state of a relativistic nuclear collision. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-13 Rupam Samanta , Piotr Bozek

We extend the usual treatment of two-particle momentum correlations to include the possibility of non-chaotic or correlated particle emission from the hadronic freeze-out surface in heavy-ion collisions. We adopt a modified two-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Trainor , J. G. Reid

In the Color Glass Condensate approach to the description of high energy heavy ion collisions, one needs to superimpose small random Gaussian distributed fluctuations to the classical background field, in order to resum the leading secular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Thomas Epelbaum , Francois Gelis

We propose Elliptic Power and Power parameterizations for the probability distribution of initial state anisotropies in heavy-ion collisions. By assuming a linear eccentricity scaling, the new parameterizations can also be applied to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-04 Li Yan , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Art M. Poskanzer

Motivated by forthcoming experiments at RHIC and LHC, and results from SPS, a review is given of the present state of event-by-event fluctuations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Fluctuations in particle multiplicities, ratios,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Heiselberg

The results from ten statistical multifragmentation models have been compared with each other using selected experimental observables. Even though details in any single observable may differ, the general trends among models are similar.…