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Motivated by forthcoming experiments at RHIC and LHC, we study event-by-event fluctuations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions in participant nucleon as well as thermal models. The calculated physical observables, including…

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The first calculation of triangular flow $v_3$ in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=200A$ GeV from an event-by-event (3+1)-d transport+hydrodynamics hybrid approach is presented. As a response to the initial triangularity $\epsilon_3$…

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Elliptic flow (v_2) of \phi-meson is shown to be a sensitive probe of the partonic collectivity using A Multi Phase Transport (AMPT) model. Within the ambit of the AMPT model with partonic interactions (string melting version), the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Md. Nasim , Bedangadas Mohanty , Nu Xu

While the abundances of the final state hadrons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are rather well described by the thermal particle production, the shape of the transverse momentum, $p_{\rm T}$, distribution below $p_{\rm T}\approx500$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Pengzhong Lu , Rafet Kavak , Andrea Dubla , Silvia Masciocchi , Ilya Selyuzhenkov

We extend the applicability of the hydrodynamics, perturbative QCD and saturation -based EKRT (Eskola-Kajantie-Ruuskanen-Tuominen) framework for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions to peripheral collisions by introducing dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-03 H. Hirvonen , K. J. Eskola , H. Niemi

Flow develops in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions via re-interactions among partons or/and hadrons. Characterizing flow is a crucial step towards understanding the formation of partonic matter. We review new measurements on…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabrice Retiere

Improved constraints on current model parameters in a heavy-ion collision model are established using the latest measurements from three distinct collision systems. Various observables are utilized from Au--Au collisions at…

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In an ideal hydrodynamic model, with an equation of state where the confinement-deconfinement transition is a cross-over at $T_{co}=196 MeV$, we have simulated $\sqrt{s}$=200 GeV Au+Au collisions. Simultaneous description of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Victor Roy , A. K. Chaudhuri

We develop a (3+1)-dimensional hybrid evolution model for heavy-ion collisions with dynamical sources for the energy-momentum tensor and baryon current. During an initial pre-equilibrium stage based on UrQMD, the four-momenta and baryon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Lipei Du , Ulrich Heinz , Gojko Vujanovic

We investigate the role of the initial condition used for the hydrodynamic evolution of the system formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and find that an appropriate choice motivated by the models of early-stage dynamics,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Wojciech Broniowski , Mikolaj Chojnacki , Wojciech Florkowski , Adam Kisiel

We quantitatively estimate properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions utilizing Bayesian statistics and a multi-parameter model-to-data comparison. The study is performed using a recently…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-22 Jonah E. Bernhard , J. Scott Moreland , Steffen A. Bass , Jia Liu , Ulrich Heinz

The analysis of anisotropic flow of particles created in high energy heavy-ion collisions gives insight into the early stage of these reactions. Measurements of directed flow (v1), elliptic flow (v2) and flow of 4th and 6th order (v4 and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Markus D. Oldenburg

The collective flow provides valuable insights into the anisotropic expansion of particles produced in heavy-ion collisions and is sensitive to the equation of the state of nuclear matter in high-baryon-density regions. In this paper, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-24 Shaowei Lan , Zuowen Liu , Like Liu , Shusu Shi

In this proceeding, we briefly describe the viscous hydrodynamics + hadron cascade hybrid model VISHNU for relativistic heavy ion collisions and report the current status on extracting the QGP viscosity from elliptic flow data.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Huichao Song

Posterior distributions for physical parameters describing relativistic heavy-ion collisions, such as the viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma, are extracted through a comparison of hydrodynamic-based transport models to experimental results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 John Novak , Kevin Novak , Scott Pratt , J. Vredevoogd , Chris Coleman-Smith , Robert Wolpert

The rapidity distribution and transverse spectra of most copious particles such as pions, Kaons and antiprotons from central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV and central Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-11 Sheng-Xu Liu , Hui-Jie Wang , Fu-Ming Liu

We investigate pseudorapidity correlations of the average transverse flow of particles emitted in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We employ 3+1 dimensional viscous relativistic hydrodynamics with initial conditions from the quark Glauber…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-12 Sandeep Chatterjee , Piotr Bozek

Viscous hydrodynamics is commonly used to model the evolution of the matter created in an ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision. It provides a good description of transverse momentum spectra and anisotropic flow. These observables,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-13 Salvatore Plumari , Giovanni Luca Guardo , Vincenzo Greco , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We study flow phenomena in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, both in transverse and radial direction, in comparison to experimental data. The collective dynamics of the nucleus-nucleus collision is described within a transport model of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Hombach , W. Cassing , S. Teis , U. Mosel

Using next-to-leading order perturbative QCD and a conjecture of saturation to suppress the production of low-energy partons, we calculate the initial energy densities and formation times for the dissipative fluid dynamical evolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 R. Paatelainen , K. J. Eskola , H. Niemi , K. Tuominen