English
Related papers

Related papers: Rapidity fluctuations in the initial state

200 papers

Although relativistic heavy-ion collisions have emerged as a powerful probe for studying nuclear structure, the potential influence of nucleon-nucleon short-range correlations (NN-SRCs) on the initial state has remained an open question. By…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Pei Li , Kai-Jia Sun , Bo Zhou , Guo-Liang Ma

Sub-nuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions impact not only transverse long-range correlations of small systems, but also the creation of longitudinal structures, seen in particle detectors as longitudinal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Sören Schlichting , Jie Zhu

Experimental data are presented on particle correlations and fluctuations in various high-energy multiparticle collisions, with special emphasis on evidence for scaling-law evolution in small phase-space domains. The notions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 E. A. De Wolf , I. M. Dremin , W. Kittel

We study the effect of parameter fluctuations on synchronization of a coupled chaotic system. The fluctuations to the parameter can be random or it can be a periodic modulation. For random fluctuations we introduce a new quantity, the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-07-24 M. P John , P. U Jijo , V. M Nandakumaran

We investigate in detail the behavior of the bipartite fluctuations of particle number $\hat{N}$ and spin $\hat{S}^z$ in many-body quantum systems, focusing on systems where such U(1) charges are both conserved and fluctuate within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 H. Francis Song , Stephan Rachel , Christian Flindt , Israel Klich , Nicolas Laflorencie , Karyn Le Hur

We analyse recent results on charged particle pseudo-rapidity densities from RHIC in the framework of the Dual String Model, in particular when including string fusion. The model, in a simple way, agrees with all the existing data and is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Ugoccioni , J. Dias de Deus

A great deal of recent data on event-by-event fluctuation and correlation measurements has been released by several experiments at the SPS and RHIC. Recent results on charge fluctuations, balance functions in pseudorapidity, and average…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeffery T. Mitchell

Learning in neural systems occurs through change in synaptic connectivity that is driven by neural activity. Learning performance is influenced by both neural activity and the task to be learned. Experimental studies suggest a link between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-23 Tomoki Kurikawa , Kunihiko Kaneko

Charge fluctuations observed in early fixed-target proton-proton experiments are consistent with string models. In central heavy ion events the picture can change in two ways: strings can interact and find new ways to hadronize or they can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Fritz W. Bopp , Johannes Ranft

We derive a reduced quasi-one-dimensional theory of geometrically frustrated elastic ribbons. Expressed in terms of geometric properties alone, it applies to ribbons over a wide range of scales, allowing the study of their elastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-29 Doron Grossman , Eran Sharon , Haim Diamant

We examine correlations of energy density induced by initial state fluctuations, which are localized in both transverse and longitudinal extent. The hotspots are evolved according to hydrodynamics in a background which includes radial flow.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 Todd Springer , Mikhail Stephanov

In fluids under temperature gradients, long-range correlations (LRCs) emerge generically, leading to enhanced density fluctuations. This phenomenon, characterized by the $\boldsymbol{q}^{-4}$ divergence in the static structure factor (where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-18 Hiroyoshi Nakano , Kazuma Yokota

We argue that string percolation is in the origin of i) an approximately flat rapidity distribution and of ii) an approximately constant forward-backward correlation parameter $b$ over a substantial fraction of the available rapidity.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 P. Brogueira , J. Dias de Deus , C. Pajares

The theoretical description of the correlations between observables in two separated rapidity intervals for AA-interactions at high energies is presented. In the case with the realistic nucleon distribution density of colliding nuclei the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Kolevatov , V. V. Vechernin

Event-by-event hydrodynamics (or hydrodynamics with fluctuating initial conditions) has been developed in the past few years. Here we discuss how it may help to understand the various structures observed in two-particle correlations.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-17 R. P. G. Andrade , F. Grassi , Y. Hama , W. -L. Qian

We study general aspects of active motion with fluctuations in the speed and the direction of motion in two dimensions. We consider the case in which fluctuations in the speed are not correlated to fluctuations in the direction of motion,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando Peruani , Luis G. Morelli

It is well understood that subnuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions have an important impact on the creation of long-range correlations in the transverse plane. This is also true for the creation of particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Sören Schlichting , Jie Zhu

One-particle spectral properties in the normal phase of the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model are investigated in the weak coupling regime using the non-selfconsistent T-matrix approximation. The corresponding equations are evaluated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Rohe , Walter Metzner

The several types of strongly intensive correlation variables are studied in nuclear collisions at LHC energy. These quantities are expected not to depend on centrality class width. They have been calculated in the dipole-based…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-05 Vladimir Kovalenko

Fluctuation and correlation observables are often measured using multi-particle correlation methods and therefore mutually probe the origins of genuine correlations present in multi-particle distribution functions. We investigate the common…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Sean Gavin , George Moschelli