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We develop a framework for event-by-event ideal hydrodynamics to study the differential elliptic flow which is measured at different centralities in Au+Au collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Fluctuating initial energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-22 Hannu Holopainen , Harri Niemi , Kari J. Eskola

We study how fluctuations in fluid dynamic fields can be dissipated or amplified within the characteristic spatio-temporal structure of a heavy ion collision. The initial conditions for a fluid dynamic evolution of heavy ion collisions may…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-08-20 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

Hydrodynamic approaches to modeling relativistic high-energy heavy-ion collisions are based on the conservation of energy and momentum. However, the medium formed in these collisions also carries additional conserved quantities, including…

The cumulant method is applied to study elliptic flow ($v_2$) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$AGeV, with the UrQMD model. In this approach, the true event plane is known and both the non-flow effects and event-by-event spatial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Xianglei Zhu , Marcus Bleicher , Horst Stoecker

In ultra-central heavy-ion collisions, anisotropic hydrodynamic flow is generated by density fluctuations in the initial state rather than by geometric overlap effects. For a given centrality class, the initial fluctuation spectrum is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-15 Chun Shen , Zhi Qiu , Ulrich Heinz

The correlation between the harmonic flow and the transverse flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions is calculated in the hydrodynamic model. The partial correlation coefficient, corrected for fluctuations of multiplicity, is compared to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Piotr Bozek , Hadi Mehrabpour

This contribution presents a theoretical overview of hydrodynamic modelling of heavy-ion collisions, with highlights on some recent developments. In particular, the formulation of anisotropic hydrodynamics, the role of hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Li Yan

We report the measurements of correlations between event-by-event fluctuations of amplitudes of anisotropic flow harmonics in nucleus-nucleus collisions, obtained for the first time using a new analysis method based on multiparticle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-29 ALICE Collaboration

Collective flow in collisions between Lead nuclei at LHC are influenced by random initial state fluctuations, especially for odd harmonics. Here we extend fluctuation studies to longitudinal fluctuations, which may have significant effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-30 Yun Cheng , Yu-Liang Yan , Dai-Mei Zhou , Xu Cai , Ben-Hao Sa , Laszlo P. Csernai

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

Anisotropies in the initial energy density distribution of the quark-gluon plasma created in high energy heavy ion collisions lead to anisotropies in the azimuthal distributions of the final-state particles known as collective flow. Fourier…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-07-03 CMS Collaboration

Event-by-event fluctuations in the amplitudes of flow harmonics offer a novel approach to probing the initial-state characteristics in heavy-ion collisions. In this study, we conduct a systematic investigation of correlations among various…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Zaining Wang , Jinhui Chen , Jiangyong Jia , Yu-Gang Ma , Chunjian Zhang

Starting from the two-point covariance function derived in [1], we have developed a toy model to investigate the effect of gluonic fluctuations on the transverse energy profile predicted by MC-KLN Color-Glass Condensate initial conditions.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Scott Moreland , Zhi Qiu , Ulrich W. Heinz

We focus on the initial state spatial anisotropies, originating at the thermalization stage, for central collisions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We propose that a plot of the root mean square values of the flow coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ananta P. Mishra , Ranjita K. Mohapatra , P. S. Saumia , Ajit M. Srivastava

In this paper a new procedure to smooth out the initial energy densities of hydrodynamics is employed to show that the initial spatial eccentricities $\varepsilon_{m,n}$, which drive the final state flow harmonics $v_n$, are remarkably…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Jorge Noronha , Miklos Gyulassy

Measurements of di-hadron azimuthal correlations at different centralities for Au+Au collisions at 200 AGeV were reported by the PHENIX Collaboration. The data were presented for different ranges of transverse momentum. In particular, it…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-21 Wagner M. Castilho , Wei-Liang Qian , Fernando G. Gardim , Yogiro Hama , Takeshi Kodama

Partonic matter produced in the early stage of ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is assumed to be composed mainly of gluons, and quarks and antiquarks are produced at later times. The comparable hydrodynamic simulations of…

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

Compressing or cooling a fluid typically enhances its static interparticle correlations. However, there are notable exceptions. Isothermal compression can reduce the translational order of fluids that exhibit anomalous waterlike trends in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-11 William P. Krekelberg , Jeetain Mittal , Venkat Ganesan , Thomas M. Truskett

We study effects of eccentricity fluctuations on the elliptic flow coefficient v_2 at mid-rapidity in both Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV by using a hybrid model that combines ideal hydrodynamics for space-time evolution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Tetsufumi Hirano , Yasushi Nara