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Recent experimental results have revealed a surprisingly rich structure of multiparticle azimuthal correlations in high energy proton-nucleus collisions. Final state collective effects can be responsible for many of the observed effects,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 T. Lappi

Azimuthal anisotropy is a key observation made in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. This phenomenon has played a crucial role in the development of the field over the last two decades. In addition to its interest for studying the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-10-20 Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We analyze azimuthal anisotropy in heavy ion collisions related to the reaction plane in terms of standard reggeon approach and find that it is nonzero even when the final state interaction is switched off. This effect can be interpreted in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 K. G. Boreskov , A. B. Kaidalov , O. V. Kancheli

Azimuthal anisotropies in heavy-ion collisions are conventionally interpreted as signatures of hydrodynamic flow. We demonstrate that in peripheral collisions, a significant $\cos 2\phi$ asymmetry in the decay leptons of coherently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Ding Yu Shao , Han-Qing Yu , Cheng Zhang , Jian Zhou

A multi-phase transport model is used to understand the origin of long-range collective azimuthal correlations in small-system collisions. To disentangle between collectivity associated with initial-state intrinsic momentum anisotropy and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-25 Maowu Nie , Li Yi , Jiangyong Jia , Guoliang Ma

The azimuthal elliptic asymmetry v2 observed in heavy ion collisions, is usually associated with properties of the medium created in the final state. We compute the azimuthal asymmetry which is due to multiple interactions of partons at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-18 B. Z. Kopeliovich , A. H. Rezaeian , Ivan Schmidt

We show that a sizeable azimuthal asymmetry, characterized by a coefficient v_2, is to be expected for direct photons produced in non-central high energy nuclear collisions. This signal is generated by photons radiated by jets interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Simon Turbide , Charles Gale , Rainer J. Fries

Smashing nuclei at ultrarelativistic speeds and analyzing the momentum distribution of outgoing debris provides a powerful method to probe the many-body properties of the incoming nuclear ground states. Within a perturbative description of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Thomas Duguet , Giuliano Giacalone , Sangyong Jeon , Alexander Tichai

The particle momentum anisotropy ($v_n$) produced in relativistic nuclear collisions is considered to be a response of the initial geometry or the spatial anisotropy $\epsilon_n$ of the system formed in these collisions. The linear…

We use the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model with a momentum-dependent nuclear mean field to simulate the dynamical evolution of heavy ion collisions. We re-examine the azimuthal anisotropy observable, proposed as sensitive to the equation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jianming Zhang , Charles Gale

Anisotropic flows ($v_2$ and $v_4$) of light nuclear clusters are studied by Isospin-Dependent Quantum Molecular Dynamics model for the system of $^{86}$Kr + $^{124}$Sn at intermediate energy and large impact parameters. Number-of-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Z. Yan , Y. G. Ma , X. Z. Cai , J. G. Chen , D. Q. Fang , W. Guo , C. W. Ma , E. J. Ma , W. Q. Shen , W. D. Tian , K. Wang

Azimuthal asymmetries $v_n$ in the soft transverse momentum spectra of hadronic collisions can result as a consequence of quantum interference and color flow which translates spatial anisotropies into momentum anisotropies via multipole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Boris Blok , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We investigate the behavior of low energy photons radiated by the deceleration processes of two colliding nuclei in relativistic heavy ion collisions using the Wigner function approach for electromagnetic radiation fields. The angular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 T. Koide , T. Kodama

The measurement of azimuthal distributions in nucleus-nucleus collisions relies upon the assumption that azimuthal correlations between particles result solely from their correlation with the reaction plane (i.e. flow). We show that at SPS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Borghini , Phuong Mai Dinh , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We review topics related to the first moment of azimuthal anisotropy ($v_1$), commonly known as directed flow, focusing on both charged particles and identified particles from heavy-ion collisions. Beam energies from the highest available,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-08 Subhash Singha , Prashanth Shanmuganathan , Declan Keane

It was argued in arXiv:1805.09342 and arXiv:1807.00825 that the systematics of the azimuthal anisotropy coefficients $v_{2,3}$ measured in ultrarelativistic light-heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC can be described in an initial state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-05 Mark Mace , Vladimir V. Skokov , Prithwish Tribedy , Raju Venugopalan

We summarize some recent ideas relating to anisotropic particle production in high-energy collisions. Anisotropic gluon distributions lead to anisotropies of the single-particle azimuthal distribution and hence to disconnected contributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-16 Adrian Dumitru , Andre V. Giannini , Vladimir Skokov

We show that the correlation between the elliptic momentum anisotropy, $v_2$, and the average transverse momentum, $[p_T]$, at fixed multiplicity in small system nuclear collisions carries information on the origin of the observed momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-11 Giuliano Giacalone , Bjoern Schenke , Chun Shen

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

Simple power counting arguments in the dilute-dense framework of the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) Effective Field Theory predict that even and odd azimuthal anisotropy harmonics of two-particle correlations in proton-nucleus collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Mark Mace , Vladimir V. Skokov , Prithwish Tribedy , Raju Venugopalan
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