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The study of the multi-strange production in the final state of ultra-relativistic Au+Au collisions at top RHIC energy gives information on the freeze-out conditions and probably on earlier stages of the collision. The chemical freeze-out…

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We investigate the fluctuations of pion elliptic flow, triangular flow, and Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlation functions for the hydrodynamic sources with fluctuating initial conditions in the heavy ion collisions of the Au-Au at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-11 Ying Hu , Wei-Ning Zhang , Yan-Yu Ren

We propose a new parametrization of the distribution of the initial eccentricity in a nucleus-nucleus collision at a fixed centrality, which we name the Elliptic Power distribution. It is a two-parameter distribution, where one of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-09-04 Li Yan , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Arthur M. Poskanzer

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 this study, we employ a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model to understand the production of $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $p$, $\overline{p}$, $K^{0}_{s}$, $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, and $\phi$ in Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 7.7$,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 Krishan Gopal , Chitrasen Jena , Kishora Nayak

We report precision measurements on cumulants ($C_{n}$) and factorial cumulants ($\kappa_{n}$) of (net-)proton number distributions up to fourth-order in Au+Au collisions from phase II of the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC. (Anti-)protons…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-02 The STAR Collaboration

We present measurements of the excitation function of elliptic flow at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at beam energies from 0.09 to 1.49 GeV per nucleon. For the integral flow, we discuss the interplay between collective expansion and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Andronic , FOPI Collaboration

We present measurements of cumulants of event-by-event net-proton distribution at mid-rapidity and their ratios up to the sixth order as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in Zr+Zr and Ru+Ru(isobars) collisions at a nucleon-nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-10 The STAR Collaboration

This paper presents research that focuses on nonflow contribution subtraction in heavy-ion collisions, using a multiphase transport model (AMPT). Specifically, the study aims to investigate the behavior of charged particle elliptic flow…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-09-26 Zuman Zhang , Sha Li , Ning Yu , Qiao Wu

We present measurement of elliptic flow, $v_2$, for charged and identified particles at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7 - 39 GeV. We compare the inclusive charged hadron $v_2$ to those from transport model…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Shusu Shi

From the events generated from the MC code of a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model with string melting, the properties of multiplicity fluctuations of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=\rm{~2.76 \,TeV}$ are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-31 Rohni Sharma , Ramni Gupta

Dynamic fluctuations in the local density of non-identified hadron tracks reconstructed in the STAR TPC are studied using the discrete wavelet transform power spectrum technique which involves mixed event reference sample comparison. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 STAR Collaboration

We apply a data-driven method to STAR Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV to isolate $\Delta\eta$-dependent and $\Delta\eta$-independent correlations by using two- and four-particle Q-cumulant $v_{n}$ measurements. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Li Yi

Fluctuations in the initial transverse energy-density distribution lead to anisotropic flows as observed in central high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Studies of longitudinal fluctuations of the anisotropic flows can shed further light on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-24 Long-Gang Pang , Guang-You Qin , Victor Roy , Xin-Nian Wang , Guo-Liang Ma

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are used to compute the centrality dependence of the collision zone eccentricities ($\epsilon_{2,4}$), for both spherical and deformed ground state nuclei, for different model scenarios. Sizable model dependent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-20 Roy A. Lacey , Rui Wei , N. N. Ajitanand , J. M. Alexander , X. Gong , J. Jia , A. Taranenko , R. Pak , Horst Stocker

The strangeness production is an important observable to study the QCD phase diagram. The yield ratios of strange quark can be helpful to search for the QCD critical end point (CEP) and/or first-order phase transition. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-17 Junaid Tariq , Sumaira Ikram , M. U. Ashraf

Using the string melting version of a multiphase transport model, we focus on the evolution of thermodynamic properties of the central cell of parton matter produced in Au$+$Au collisions ranging from 200 GeV down to 2.7 GeV. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-01 Han-Sheng Wang , Guo-Liang Ma , Zi-Wei Lin , Wei-jie Fu

The results from the STAR Collaboration on directed flow (v_1), elliptic flow (v_2), and the fourth harmonic (v_4) in the anisotropic azimuthal distribution of particles from Au+Au collisions at sqrtsNN = 200 GeV are summarized and compared…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 STAR Collaboration

An analysis method is proposed to study the forward-backward (FB) multiplicity fluctuation in high-energy nuclear collisions, built on the earlier work of Bzdak and Teaney. The method allows the decomposition of the centrality dependence of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Jiangyong Jia , Sooraj Radhakrishnan , Mingliang Zhou

The initial energy density distribution and fluctuation in the transverse direction lead to anisotropic flows of final hadrons through collective expansion in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Fluctuations along the longitudinal direction,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Long-Gang Pang , Hannah Petersen , Guang-You Qin , Victor Roy , Xin-Nian Wang