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Since their discovery, fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions have been understood as originating mostly from the random positions of nucleons within the colliding nuclei. We consider an alternative approach where all the…

We argue that the transverse shape of the fireball created in heavy ion collision is controlled by event-by-event fluctuations of the eccentricity vectors for the forward-going and backward-going wounded nucleons:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-08 Jiangyong Jia , Peng Huo

Recent experiments have shown that the mean transverse momentum $\langle p_T\rangle$ of outgoing particles increases as a function of the particle multiplicity in ultracentral nucleus-nucleus collisions at collider energies. This increase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Fabian Zhou , Giuliano Giacalone , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Event-by-event fluctuations and correlations between particles produced in relativistic nuclear collisions are studied. The fluctuations in positive, negative, total and net charge are closely related through correlations. In the event of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Heiselberg , A. D. Jackson

We investigate the initial state geometric quantities of heavy ion collisions based on the quark participant assumption in the Glauber multiple scattering approach. A systematic comparison to the nucleon participant assumption has been…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Liang Zheng , Zhongbao Yin

The measurement of particle correlations and fluctuations has been suggested as a method to search for the existence of a phase transition in relativistic heavy ion collisions. If quark-gluon matter is formed in the collision of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Terence J. Tarnowsky

We present measurements of elliptic flow and event-by-event fluctuations established by the PHOBOS experiment. Elliptic flow scaled by participant eccentricity is found to be similar for both systems when collisions with the same number of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Rachid Nouicer

Starting from the two-point covariance function derived in [1], we have developed a toy model to investigate the effect of gluonic fluctuations on the transverse energy profile predicted by MC-KLN Color-Glass Condensate initial conditions.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Scott Moreland , Zhi Qiu , Ulrich W. Heinz

Elliptic flow, elliptic flow fluctuations and fluctuations in the initial geometry point to a description of nuclear collisions that is driven by the initial geometry, a quantity which appears to be imprinted from the instant of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-07-03 R. S. Hollis

Due to gluon saturation, the growth of the inelastic nucleon-nucleon cross section with increasing collision energy sqrt(s) results in a broadening of the nucleon's density distribution in position space. This leads to a natural smoothing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-08 Ulrich W. Heinz , J. Scott Moreland

In nucleon-nucleon collisions, charged particle's multiplicity fluctuates. We have studied the effect of multiplicity fluctuation on flow harmonics in nucleus-nucleus collision in event-by-event hydrodynamics. Assuming that the charged…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-03 A. K. Chaudhuri

We investigate the effect of nucleon-nucleon correlations on the initial condition of ultra-central heavy ion collisions at LHC energies. We calculate the eccentricities of the MC-Glauber and IP-Glasma models in the 0--1% centrality class…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-01 G. S. Denicol , C. Gale , S. Jeon , J. -F. Paquet , B. Schenke

In the Color Glass Condensate approach to the description of high energy heavy ion collisions, one needs to superimpose small random Gaussian distributed fluctuations to the classical background field, in order to resum the leading secular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Thomas Epelbaum , Francois Gelis

Using quantum molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the formation of fragments in symmetric reactions between beam energies of E=30AMeV and 600AMeV. After a comparison with existing data we investigate some observables relevant to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Joerg Aichelin

We study how local fluctuations in the initial states of relativistic heavy-ion collisions manifest themselves in the correlations between different orders of harmonic moments of the density profiles, particularly those involving only odd…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Guang-You Qin , Berndt Müller

In heavy-ion collisions, the harmonic flow $V_n$ of final-state particles are driven by the eccentricity vector ${\mathcal{E}}_n$ that describe the shape of the initial fireball projected in the transverse plane. It is realized recently…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Arabinda Behera , Maowu Nie , Jiangyong Jia

Effects caused by the event-by-event fluctuation of the initial conditions in hydrodynamical description of high-energy heavy-ion collisions are investigated. Non-negligible effects appear for several observable quantities, even for a fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 C. E. Aguiar , Y. Hama , T. Kodama , T. Osada

Initial geometrical distribution and fluctuation can affect the collective expansion in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This effect may be more evident in small system (such as B + B) than in large one (Pb + Pb). This work presents the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-24 S. Zhang , Y. G. Ma , G. L. Ma , J. H. Chen , Q. Y. Shou , W. B. He , C. Zhong

Within the framework of a multi-phase transport model, harmonic flows $v_n$ (n = 2, 3 and 4) are investigated for Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV and Pb + Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV. The event-by-event…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-29 L. X. Han , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , X. Z. Cai , J. H. Chen , S. Zhang , C. Zhong