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We provide a brief review of some of the recent developments in our understanding of the initial state in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-28 Raju Venugopalan

In heavy-ion collisions, momentum-dependent pair correlations can be characterized by a principal component analysis (PCA), in which subleading modes are expected to reveal new information on flow fluctuations. However, we find that, as…

The determination of the speed of sound in quark-gluon plasma is a crucial aspect of understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this study, we investigate the impact of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 Jing-An Sun , Li Yan

Estimations of event-by-event mean transverse momentum ($\langle p_{\rm T} \rangle$) fluctuations are reported in terms of the integral correlator, $\langle \Delta p_{\rm T} \Delta p_{\rm T}\rangle$, and the skewness of event-wise $\langle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-22 Subhadeep Roy , Tanu Gahlaut , Sadhana Dash

Event-by-event fluctuations of the chemical composition of the hadronic final state of relativistic heavy-ion collisions carry valuable information on the properties of strongly interacting matter produced in the collisions. However, in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-06-06 M. Gazdzicki , K. Grebieszkow , M. Mackowiak , St. Mrowczynski

We present measurements of elliptic flow and event-by-event fluctuations established by the PHOBOS experiment. Elliptic flow scaled by participant eccentricity is found to be similar for both systems when collisions with the same number of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Rachid Nouicer

Large density fluctuations of conserved charges have been proposed as a promising signature for exploring the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions. These fluctuations are expected to exhibit a fractal or scale-invariant behavior,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Rui Wang , Chengrui Qiu , Chuan-Shen Hu , Zhiming Li , Yuanfang Wu

We study how local fluctuations in the initial states of relativistic heavy-ion collisions manifest themselves in the correlations between different orders of harmonic moments of the density profiles, particularly those involving only odd…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Guang-You Qin , Berndt Müller

We argue that recent data on fluctuations observed in heavy ion collisions show non-monotonic behaviour as function of number of participants (or "wounded nucleons") N_W. When interpreted in thermodynamical approach this result can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Rybczynski , Z. Wlodarczyk , G. Wilk

We propose an extension of the initial condition model TRENTo for sampling the number of partons inside the nucleons that participate in a heavy-ion collision. This sampling method is based on parton distribution functions (PDFs) and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Andreas Kirchner , Steffen A. Bass

The related studies of two-particle correlations and event-by-event fluctuations have played important roles in the search for new physics through the experimental study of relativistic heavy ion collisions. We present a general method of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Daugherity

Descriptions of heavy-ion collisions at Fermi energies require to take into account in-medium dissipation and phase-space fluctuations. The interplay of these correlations with the one-body collective behaviour determines the properties…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 P. Napolitani , M. Colonna

In a reaction-diffusion system, fluctuations in both diffusion and reaction events, have important effects on the steady-state statistics of the system. Here, we argue through extensive lattice simulations, mean-field type arguments, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-12 Fernando Peruani , Chiu Fan Lee

I present an overview of recent theoretical results on fluctuations of conserved charges in heavy-ion collisions obtained in relativistic hydrodynamics and molecular dynamics frameworks. In particular, I discuss the constraints on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Volodymyr Vovchenko

Event by event fluctuations of particle multiplicities and their ratios are considered to be sensitive probes to the exotic phenomena in high energy heavy ion collisions like phase transtion or the occurence of critical point. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-22 S. Ahmad , M. Farooq , S. Bashir , H. jahan , N. Ahmad , S. Chattopadhyay

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

Four models for the initial conditions of a fluid dynamic description of high energy heavy ion collisions are analysed and compared. We study expectation values and event-by-event fluctuations in the initial transverse energy density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-01 Stefan Floerchinger , Eduardo Grossi , Kianusch Vahid Yousefnia

We analyze the event-by-event fluctuations of mean transverse-momentum measured recently by the PHENIX and STAR Collaborations at RHIC. We argue that the observed scaling of strength of dynamical fluctuations with the inverse number of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Florkowski , W. Broniowski , B. Hiller , P. Bozek

Correlation measurements imply that anisotropic flow in nuclear collisions includes a novel triangular component along with the more familiar elliptic-flow contribution. Triangular flow has been attributed to event-wise fluctuations in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Sean Gavin , George Moschelli

Enhanced fluctuations and correlations have been observed in the phase transitions of many systems. Their appearance at the predicted QCD phase transition (especially near the expected critical point) may provide insight into the nature of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-10-12 Terence J Tarnowsky