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Collective flow of the final-state hadrons observed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions or even in smaller systems formed in high-multiplicity pp and p/d/$^3$He-nucleus collisions is one of the most important diagnostic tools to probe…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-29 Rajeev S Bhalerao

We study multi-particle azimuthal correlations in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV. We use initial conditions obtained from a Monte-Carlo Glauber model and evolve them within a viscous relativistic hydrodynamics framework that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Kaiser Shafi , Prabhupada Dixit , Sandeep Chatterjee , Md. Nasim

We propose that flow fluctuations have the same origin as transverse momentum fluctuations. The common source of these fluctuations is the spatially inhomogeneous initial state that drives hydrodynamic flow. Longitudinal correlations from…

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

The kinetic freeze-out for the hydrodynamical description of relativistic heavy ion collisions is discussed using a background-fluctuation splitting of the hydrodynamical fields. For a single event, the particle spectrum, or its logarithm,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-28 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

Hadron spectra and elliptic flow in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are studied within a (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic model with fluctuating initial conditions given by the AMPT Monte Carlo model. Results from event-by-event simulations are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-09-20 Longgang Pang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

The connection between initial-state geometry and anisotropic flow can be quantified through a well-established mapping between $p_T$-integrated flow harmonics and cumulants of the initial transverse energy distribution. In this paper we…

Flow coefficients $v_n$ for $n$ = 2, 3, 4, characterizing the anisotropic collective flow in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV, are presented. They indicate the expected growth of viscous damping for sound propagation in the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-30 Roy Lacey

We consider the development of anisotropic flow in an expanding system of particles undergoing very few rescatterings, using a kinetic-theoretical description with a nonlinear collision term. We derive the scaling behaviors of the harmonic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-29 Nicolas Borghini , Steffen Feld , Nina Kersting

The distribution of flow harmonics in heavy ion experiment can be characterized by standardized cumulants. We first model the ellipticity and power parameters of the elliptic-power distribution by employing MC-Glauber model. Then we use the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-08 Navid Abbasi , Davood Allahbakhshi , Ali Davody , Seyed Farid Taghavi

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

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 this thesis, we focus on the fluctuations and correlations of the collective observables such as the mean transverse momentum per particle ($[p_T]$) and harmonic flow coefficients ($v_n$) of particles produced in the ultrarelativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-20 Rupam Samanta

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

Dipole, triangular, and higher harmonic flow that have an origin in the initial density fluctuations has gained a lot of attention as they can provide additional important information about the dynamical properties (e.g. viscosity) of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Sergei A. Voloshin

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

Hadron spectra and elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are studied in event-by-event (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic simulations with fluctuating initial conditions given by the AMPT Monte Carlo model. Both the coherent soft gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Longgang Pang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

Higher Fourier harmonics of anisotropic flow ($v_4$ and beyond) get large contributions induced by elliptic and triangular flow through nonlinear response. We present a general framework of nonlinear hydrodynamic response which encompasses…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-16 Giuliano Giacalone , Li Yan , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

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

We suggest to perform systematic measurements of the elliptic flow fluctuations which are sensitive to the early stage dynamics of heavy-ion collisions at high-energies. Significant flow fluctuations are shown to be generated due to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislaw Mrowczynski , Edward Shuryak

Elliptic flow, $v_2$, and triangular flow, $v_3$, are to a good approximation linearly proportional to the corresponding spatial anisotropies of the initial density profile, $\varepsilon_2$ and $\varepsilon_3$. Using event-by-event…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-25 Giuliano Giacalone , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Jean-Yves Ollitrault