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Neutron and x-ray scattering experiments traditionally rely upon histogrammed data sets, which are analysed using least-squares curve fitting of multiple probability distribution components to quantify separately the various scientific…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-30 Phillip M. Bentley , Thomas H. Rod

Anisotropies in the final state of heavy-ion collisions carry information on the creation, expansion and evolution of the quark-gluon plasma. Currently, there is an abundance of studies on azimuthal anisotropies in comparison to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-23 Meera Machado

We simulate ultra-central collisions of prolate uranium-uranium nuclei at intermediate energies using the isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model to investigate the impact of momentum anisotropy on spatial geometric effects. By…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-28 Xiao-Hua Fan , Zu-Xing Yang , Peng-Hui Chen , Zhi-Pan Li , Wei Zuo , Masaaki Kimura , Shunji Nishimura

Higher-order anisotropic flows $v_{4}$ and $v_{6}$ in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider are studied in a multiphase transport model that has previously been used successfully for describing the elliptic flow $v_2$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Lie-Wen Chen , C. M. Ko , Zi-Wei Lin

Measured moments of the multiplicity distribution for a given sort of particles are used in the literature for the determination of the phase transition parameters of hot QCD matter in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We argue that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-02 Radka Sochorova , Boris Tomasik , Marcus Bleicher

Using variational autoencoders trained on known physics processes, we develop a one-sided threshold test to isolate previously unseen processes as outlier events. Since the autoencoder training does not depend on any specific new physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-14 Olmo Cerri , Thong Q. Nguyen , Maurizio Pierini , Maria Spiropulu , Jean-Roch Vlimant

A recently formulated framework of highly-anisotropic and strongly-dissipative hydrodynamics (ADHYDRO) is used to describe the evolution of matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. New developments of the model contain:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Radoslaw Ryblewski , Wojciech Florkowski

The anisotropic flow of charged hadrons in asymmetric Cu+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is studied in a multi-phase transport model. Compared with previous results for symmetric Au+Au collisions, charged hadrons…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been extensively applied to high energy heavy-ion collisions. We review hydrodynamic calculations for Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies and provide a comprehensive comparison between the model and experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter F. Kolb , Ulrich Heinz

In nuclear collisions at highest accessible LHC energies, often more than one dijet pairs deposit momentum into the deconfined expanding medium. With the help of 3+1 dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulation we show that this leads…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-03 Martin Schulc , Boris Tomasik

We discuss an event-by-event fluctuation analysis of particle production in heavy ion collisions. We compare different approaches to the evaluation of the event-by-event dynamical fluctuations in quantities defined on groups of particles,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Voloshin , V. Koch , H. G. Ritter

Directed and elliptic event anisotropy parameters measured in the experiments at relativistic heavy-ion collider are presented. The possible origin of the measured elliptic anisotropy parameter $v_2$ and its sensitivity to the early phase…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 ShinIchi Esumi

We compute analytically the anisotropic flow in an expanding mixture of several species of relativistic massive particles. We find that a single collision per particle in average already leads to sizable elliptic flow, with mass ordering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Nicolas Borghini , Clement Gombeaud

In recent years many procedures have been proposed to check the anisotropy of a dataset. We present a new simple procedure, based on a scale dependent approach, to detect anisotropy signatures in a given distribution with particular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Scuderi , M. De Domenico , A. Insolia , H. Lyberis

Anisotropic hydrodynamics is a non-perturbative reorganization of relativistic hydrodynamics that takes into account the large momentum-space anisotropies generated in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. As a result, it allows one to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-06 Michael Strickland

The azimuthal anisotropy of jet spectra due to energy loss of jet partons in azimuthally non-symmetric volume of dense quark-gluon matter is considered for semi-central nuclear interactions at collider energies. We develop the techniques…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 I. P. Lokhtin , L. I. Sarycheva , A. M. Snigirev

Event classifiers based either on the charged-particle multiplicity or on event topologies, such as spherocity and underlying event, became very useful tools to study collective-like behaviors in small collision systems. However,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-19 Gyula Bencédi

The time evolution of the medium created in heavy ion collisions can be described by hydrodynamical models. After expansion and cooling, the hadrons are created in a freeze-out. Their distribution describes the final state of this medium.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-25 Mate Csanad , Andras Szabo

Correlators between event planes of different harmonics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have the potential to provide crucial information on the initial state of the matter formed in these collisions. We present a new procedure for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-28 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Subrata Pal

Results are presented from a study of the structure of hadronic events in high-energy e+e- interactions detected by the L3 detector at LEP. Various event shape distributions and their moments are measured at several energy points at and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 L3 Collaboration