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The specific shear viscosity (eta/s)_QGP of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) can be extracted from elliptic flow data in heavy-ion collisions by comparing them with the dynamical model VISHNU which couples a viscous fluid dynamic description of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-04-26 Ulrich W. Heinz , Chun Shen , Huichao Song

Lambda flow in Ni+Ni collisions at SIS energies is studied in the relativistic transport model (RVUU 1.0). It is found that for primordial lambdas the flow is considerably weaker than proton flow. The inclusion of final-state interactions,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Q. Li , C. M. Ko

Analysis of directed flow ($v_1$) of protons, antiprotons and pions in heavy-ion collisions is performed in the range of collision energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.7--39 GeV. Simulations have been done within a three-fluid model employing a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-12 Yuri B. Ivanov

High precision measurements of flow coefficients $v_{n}$ ($n = 1 - 4$) for protons, deuterons and tritons relative to the first-order spectator plane have been performed in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.4$ GeV with the…

Flow observables in heavy-ion reactions at incident energies up to about 1 GeV per nucleon have been shown to be very useful for investigating the reaction dynamics and for determining the parameters of reaction models based on transport…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-03-25 P. Russotto , M. D. Cozma , A. Le Fevre , Y. Leifels , R. Lemmon , Q. Li , J. Lukasik , W. Trautmann

While hybrid approaches of relativistic hydrodynamics+transport have been well established for the dynamical description of heavy-ion collisions at high beam energies, moving to lower beam energies is challenging. In this work, we propose…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-16 Renan Góes-Hirayama , Joscha Egger , Zuzana Paulínyová , Iurii Karpenko , Hannah Elfner

Using the coalescence model with nucleon phase-space distributions generated by the hybrid MUSIC framework, we study the elliptic flow ($v_2$) and triangular flow ($v_3$) of (anti-)protons, (anti-)deuterons, (anti-)$^3\mathrm{He}$, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-07 Fu Ma , Zheng-Qing Wang , Xiong-Hong He , Che Ming Ko , Qi-Ye Shou , Kai-Jia Sun , Wenbin Zhao , Wen-Hao Zhou

By taking into account the effects of leading particles, we discuss the pseudorapidity distributions of the charged particles produced in high energy heavy ion collisions in the context of evolution-dominated hydrodynamic model. The leading…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-07 Z. J. Jiang , H. L. Zhang , J. Wang , K. Ma

A hydrodynamic + cascade model of relativistic heavy ion collisions is presented and compared to available hadronic data from the SPS to RHIC. The model consistently reproduces the radial and elliptic flow data for different particles,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-12 D. Teaney , J. Lauret , E. V. Shuryak

The evolution of a relativistic heavy-ion collision is typically understood as a process that transmutes the initial geometry of the system into the final momentum distribution of observed hadrons, which can be described via a cumulant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Jefferson Sousa , Jorge Noronha , Matthew Luzum

In the hydrodynamical description of heavy-ion collisions, the elliptic flow $\mathrm{v_{2}}$ and triangular flow $\mathrm{v_{3}}$ are sensitive to the quadrupole deformation $\mathrm{\beta_{2}}$ of the colliding nuclei. We produce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-12 Saraswati Pandey , B. K. Singh

Hybrid approaches based on relativistic hydrodynamics and transport theory have been successfully applied for many years for the dynamical description of heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. In this work a new viscous hybrid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-09 Iu. A. Karpenko , P. Huovinen , H. Petersen , M. Bleicher

Anisotropic flow and fluctuations are sensitive observables of the initial state effects in heavy ion collisions and are characterized by the medium properties and final state interactions. Using event-shape observables, one can constrain…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Suraj Prasad , Aswathy Menon K R , Raghunath Sahoo , Neelkamal Mallick

Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at an energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 65 {\rm GeV}$ are studied in a three-dimensional Fluid Dynamical model. The results of a hydrodynamical evolution using the PIC-method are shown. The importance and…

The event-to-event fluctuations of hadron multiplicities are studied for a quark system undergoing second-order phase transition to hadrons. Emphasis is placed on the search for an observable signature that is realistic for heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Rudolph C. Hwa , Qing-hui Zhang

The beam energy dependence of the elliptic flow,$v_2$, is studied in mid-central Au+Au collisions in the energy range of $3\leq \sqrt{s_{NN}} \leq 30$ GeV within the microscopic transport model JAM. The results of three different modes of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Yasushi Nara , Harri Niemi , Akira Ohnishi , Jan Steinheimer , Xiaofeng Luo , Horst Stoecker

We present the hybrid hadron string dynamic (HydHSD) model connecting the parton-hadron-string dynamic model (PHSD) and a hydrodynamic model taking into account shear viscosity within the Israel-Stewart approach. The performance of the code…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 A. S. Khvorostukhin , E. E. Kolomeitsev , V. D. Toneev

In this article, we briefly review recent progress on hydrodynamic modeling and its implementations to relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. The related topics include: 1) initial state fluctuations, final state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-03 Huichao Song

Two-particle correlations in relative rapidity and azimuth are studied for the p-Pb collisions at the LHC energy of 5.02 TeV in the framework of event-by-event 3+1-dimensional viscous hydrodynamics. It is found that for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-01-16 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

This work presents measurements of the transverse-momentum-dependent observable $v_{0}(p_\mathrm{T})$ as a novel probe of radial expansion dynamics in Pb$-$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector. Results…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-22 Swati Saha