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Collisions of isobar nuclei, those with the same mass number but different structure parameters, provide a new way to probe the initial condition of the heavy ion collisions. Using transport model simulation of $^{96}$Ru+$^{96}$Ru and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Somadutta Bhatta , Chunjian Zhang , Jiangyong Jia

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, event-by-event fluctuations are known to have non-trivial implications. Even though the probability distribution is geometrically isotropic for the initial conditions, the anisotropic $\varepsilon_n$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-04 Wei-Liang Qian , Kai Lin , Chong Ye , Jin Li , Yu Pan , Rui-Hong Yue

Event-by-event fluctuations in the initial density distributions of the fireballs created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions lead to event-by-event fluctuations of the final anisotropic flow angles, and density inhomogeneities in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-01 Ulrich W. Heinz , Zhi Qiu , Chun Shen

At energies of a few GeV per nucleon, nuclear collisions exhibit phenomena more complex than the individualistic nucleon interactions observed at much higher energies. From recent results on proton number fluctuations in Au + Au collisions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Ali Bazgir , Maciej Rybczynski , Uzair A. Shah , Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

High parton densities in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions suggest a description of these collisions wherein the high energy nuclear wavefunctions and the initial stages of the nuclear collision are dominated by classical fields. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Kevin Dusling , Francois Gelis , Raju Venugopalan

We present measurements of net charge fluctuations in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV, $Cu + Cu$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 62.4, 200 GeV, and $p + p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 200 GeV using…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Monika Sharma

The recent appreciation of the importance of event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions has lead to a large amount of diverse theoretical and experimental activity. In particular, there is significant interest in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-08 Andrew Adare , Matthew Luzum , Hannah Petersen

Recent studies reveal that at high energies, collisions of small system like $p+p$ gives signatures similar to that widely observed in heavy ion collisions hinting towards a possibility of forming a medium with collective behaviour. With…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-15 Suman Deb , Golam Sarwar , Dhananjaya Thakur , Pavish S. , Raghunath Sahoo , Jan-e Alam

Event by event fluctuations of particle multiplicities and their ratios are considered to be sensitive probes to the exotic phenomena in high energy heavy ion collisions like phase transtion or the occurence of critical point. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-22 S. Ahmad , M. Farooq , S. Bashir , H. jahan , N. Ahmad , S. Chattopadhyay

Event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied within the HSD and UrQMD transport models. The scaled variances of negative, positive, and all charged hadrons in Pb+Pb at 158 AGeV are analyzed in…

Results are presented on event-by-event fluctuations in transverse momentum of charged particles, produced at forward rapidities in p+p, C+C, Si+Si and Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV. Three different characteristics are discussed: the average…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 The NA49 Collaboration

High-energy nuclear collisions create a quark-gluon plasma, whose initial condition and subsequent expansion vary from event to event, impacting the distribution of the event-wise average transverse momentum ($P([p_{\mathrm{T}}])$).…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-03-14 ATLAS Collaboration

An interesting opportunity to determine thermodynamic and transport properties in more detail is to identify generic statistical properties of initial density perturbations. Here we study event-by-event fluctuations in terms of correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-29 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We address the role of fluctuations in strongly interacting matter during the dense stages of a heavy-ion collision through its electromagnetic emission. Fluctuations of isospin charge are considered in a thermal system at rest as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Prakash , R. Rapp , J. Wambach , I. Zahed

The multiplicity fluctuations in A+A collisions at SPS and RHIC energies are studied within the HSD transport approach. We find a dominant role of the fluctuations in the nucleon participant number for the final fluctuations. In order to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 V. P. Konchakovski , M. Hauer , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya

The small collision systems like p+p and p+A collisions have shown new features like A+A collisions in the relativistic regime. These new aspects in small systems which have altered our research and understanding on the two-particle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-09-06 Debasish Das

High energy proton-nucleus (pA) collisions provide an important constraint on the study of the chiral magnetic effect in QCD matter. Naively, in pA collisions one expects no correlation between the orientation of event plane as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-21 Dmitri Kharzeev , Zhoudunming Tu , Aobo Zhang , Wei Li

In this paper a new procedure to smooth out the initial energy densities of hydrodynamics is employed to show that the initial spatial eccentricities $\varepsilon_{m,n}$, which drive the final state flow harmonics $v_n$, are remarkably…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Jorge Noronha , Miklos Gyulassy

It is demonstrated using Monte Carlo simulation that in different nucleus$-$nucleus collision samples, the increase of the fluctuation of event factorial moments with decreasing phase space scale, called erraticity, is still dominated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Liu Fuming , Liao Hongbo , Liu Ming , Liu Feng , Liu Lianshou

We address the general features of event-by-event fluctuations of the multiplicity of gluons produced in the scattering of a dilute hadron off a large nucleus at high energy in the fragmentation region of the dilute hadron. We relate these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-11 Tseh Liou , A. H. Mueller , S. Munier