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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

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

Within the framework of a multi-phase transport model, harmonic flows $v_n$ (n = 2, 3 and 4) are investigated for Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV and Pb + Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV. The event-by-event…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-29 L. X. Han , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , X. Z. Cai , J. H. Chen , S. Zhang , C. Zhong

We carry out a combined analysis of elliptic and triangular flow data using viscous relativistic hydrodynamics. We show that these data allow to put tight constraints on models of the early dynamics of a nucleus-nucleus collision.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-10 Ekaterina Retinskaya , Matthew Luzum , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Recent measurements of event-by-event elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV exhibit large relative fluctuations of about 40~50%. The data are well described by fluctuations in the shape of the initial collision region, as…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven Manly

A simple geometrical model with event-by-event fluctuations is suggested to study elliptical and triangular eccentricities in the initial state of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This model describes rather well the ALICE and ATLAS data…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 G. Kh. Eyyubova , V. L. Korotkikh , A. M. Snigirev , E. E. Zabrodin

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…

The effects of event-by-event fluctuations in the initial geometry of the colliding nuclei are important in the analysis of final flow observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We use hydrodynamic simulations to study the amplitude…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-14 Jing Qian , Ulrich Heinz

We compute bottomonium suppression and elliptic flow within the pNRQCD effective field theory using an open quantum systems approach. For the hydrodynamical background, we use 2+1D MUSIC second-order viscous hydrodynamics with IP-Glasma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-21 Huda Alalawi , Jacob Boyd , Chun Shen , Michael Strickland

Hydrodynamic fluctuations have been studied in a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena in the past decade. In high energy heavy ion collisions, there will be intrinsic fluctuations even if the initial conditions are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-18 Joseph I. Kapusta , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

Event-by-event fluctuations in the initial density distributions of the fireballs created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions lead to event-by-event fluctuations of the final anisotropic flow angles, and density inhomogeneities in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-01 Ulrich W. Heinz , Zhi Qiu , Chun Shen

Effects caused by the event-by-event fluctuation of the initial conditions in hydrodynamical description of high-energy heavy-ion collisions are investigated. Non-negligible effects appear for several observable quantities, even for a fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 C. E. Aguiar , Y. Hama , T. Kodama , T. Osada

I review recent measurements of a large set of flow observables associated with event-shape fluctuations and collective expansion in heavy ion collisions. First, these flow observables are classified and experiment methods are introduced.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Jiangyong Jia

We introduce the concepts of participant triangularity and triangular flow in heavy-ion collisions, analogous to the definitions of participant eccentricity and elliptic flow. The participant triangularity characterizes the triangular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 B. Alver , G. Roland

A systemical analysis of the initial fluctuation effect on the collective flows for Au+Au at 1$A$ GeV has been presented in the framework of Isospin-dependent Quantum Molecular Dynamics model (IQMD), and a special focus on the initial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Jia Wang , Yu-Gang Ma , Guo-Qiang Zhang , Wen-Qing Shen

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, event-by-event fluctuations are known to have non-trivial implications. Even though the probability distribution is geometrically isotropic for the initial conditions, the anisotropic $\varepsilon_n$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-04 Wei-Liang Qian , Kai Lin , Chong Ye , Jin Li , Yu Pan , Rui-Hong Yue

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 present a study of the elliptic (v2) and triangular (v3) flow and their corresponding eccentricity fluctuations for asymmetric (Au+Ag, Au+Cu and Au+Si) collisions at \sqrt_NN = 200 GeV. These are compared to the corresponding results…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 Md. Rihan Haque , Md. Nasim , Bedangadas Mohanty

We propose a redefinition of the principal component analysis (PCA) of anisotropic flow that makes it more directly connected to fluctuations of the initial geometry of the system. Then, using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations, we…

We present a systematic study of the effects due to initial condition fluctuations in systems formed by heavy-ion collisions using the hydrodynamical simulation code NeXSPheRIO. The study was based on a sample of events generated simulating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-04 Rafael Derradi de Souza , Jun Takahashi , Takeshi Kodama , Paul Sorensen