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Two particle correlations have been used extensively to study hydrodynamic flow patterns in heavy-ion collisions. In small collision systems, such as $p$$+$$p$ and $p$$+$$A$, where particle multiplicities are much smaller than in $A$$+$$A$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-13 S. H. Lim , Q. Hu , R. Belmont , K. K. Hill , J. L. Nagle , D. V. Perepelitsa

We suggest the possibility to disentangle anisotropic flow, flow fluctuation, and nonflow using two-, four-, and six-particle azimuthal moments assuming Gaussian fluctuations. We show that such disentanglement is possible when the flow…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-02-18 Li Yi , Fuqiang Wang , Aihong Tang

Recently the PHENIX Collaboration has made available two-particle correlation Fourier coefficients for multiple detector combinations in minimum bias p+p and 0-5% central p+Au, d+Au, 3He+Au collisions at 200 GeV [1]. Using these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 J. L. Nagle , R. Belmont , S. H. Lim , B. Seidlitz

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

Anisotropic flow measurements in heavy-ion collisions provide important information on the properties of hot and dense matter. These measurements are based on analysis of azimuthal correlations and might be biased by contributions from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-10-18 Ante Bilandzic , Raimond Snellings , Sergei Voloshin

The azimuthal correlations between local flow planes at different (pseudo)rapidities ($\eta$) may reveal important details of the initial nuclear matter density distributions in heavy-ion collisions. Extensive experimental measurements of a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-09 Zhiwan Xu , Xiatong Wu , Caleb Sword , Gang Wang , Sergei A. Voloshin , Huan Zhong Huang

Flow develops in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions via re-interactions among partons or/and hadrons. Characterizing flow is a crucial step towards understanding the formation of partonic matter. We review new measurements on…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabrice Retiere

We present a new method for analyzing directed and elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions. Unlike standard methods, it separates the contribution of flow to azimuthal correlations from contributions due to other effects. The separation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Borghini , Phuong Mai Dinh , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Particle azimuth distributions are widely studied in heavy-ion collisions. They are often expanded in Fourier series to extract anisotropic flow harmonics simultaneously. It was recently proposed that the different orders of flows could…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-23 Yicheng Feng

Anisotropic flow coefficients and their fluctuations are investigated for Au+Au collisions at center of mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV by using a multi-phase transport model with string melting scenario. Experimental results of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 L. Ma , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma

We consider various methods of flow analysis in heavy ion collisions and compare experimental data on corresponding observables to the predictions of our saturation model proposed earlier. We demonstrate that, due to the nature of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuri V. Kovchegov , Kirill L. Tuchin

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

As flow estimators, multi-particle correlators, particularly the higher-order ones, are generally regarded as effective tools for suppressing non-flow contributions. In this work, however, using two well-known toy models that simulate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Chong Ye , Wei-Liang Qian , Yue Cui , Dan Wen , Yutao Xing , Rui-Hong Yue , Takeshi Kodama

The system formed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions behaves as a nearly-perfect fluid. This collective behavior is probed experimentally by two-particle azimuthal correlations, which are typically averaged over the properties of one…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-28 Fernando G. Gardim , Frederique Grassi , Matthew Luzum , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

The Multi-particle technique has been used to unravel the nature of the long-range collectivity in small collision systems. A large three-particle mixed-harmonic correlation signal was recently observed by the ATLAS Collaboration, but the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-04 Chunjian Zhang , Jiangyong Jia , Jun Xu

We propose a method to separate \Delta\eta-dependent and \Delta\eta-independent azimuthal correlations using two- and four-particle cumulants between pseudo-rapidity (\eta) bins in symmetric heavy-ion collisions. The \Delta\eta-independent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-10-10 Lingshan Xu , Li Yi , Daniel Kikola , Joshua Konzer , Fuqiang Wang , Wei Xie

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

In this paper, new measurements of anisotropic flow ($v_{1}$, $v_{2}$) for identified particles such as pions and proton in Cu+Au collisions at 200 GeV and U+U collisions at 193 GeV are reported. The anisotropic flow is studied as a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-11 Shengli Huang

We present a new method to extract anisotropic flow in heavy ion collisions from the genuine correlation among a large number of particles. Anisotropic flow is obtained from the zeroes in the complex plane of a generating function of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 R. S. Bhalerao , N. Borghini , J. -Y. Ollitrault

We study factorization-breaking coefficients between the momentum dependent and momentum averaged flow vectors to probe flow fluctuations caused by initial-state fluctuations in heavy-ion collision. The coefficients for the flow vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-02 Piotr Bozek , Rupam Samanta
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