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Identified Particle Spectra and Anisotropic Flow in an Event-by-Event Hybrid Approach in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV

The first results from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider for charged particle spectra and elliptic flow are compared to an event-by-event hybrid approach with an ideal hydrodynamic expansion. This approach has been shown to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Hannah Petersen

Scaling Features of Selected Observables at RHIC

We discuss several observables measured by PHOBOS that show common scaling features in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies. In particular, we examine the centrality and energy dependence of the charged particle multiplicity, as well…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Constantin Loizides

Measurement of flow coefficients in high-multiplicity $p$+Au, $d$+Au and $^{3}$He$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}}$=200 GeV

Flow coefficients ($v_2$ and $v_3$) are measured in high-multiplicity $p$+Au, $d$+Au, and $^{3}$He$+$Au collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}}$ = 200 GeV using the STAR detector. The measurements utilize…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-11-07 STAR Collaboration , M. I. Abdulhamid , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , E. C. Aschenauer , S. Aslam , J. Atchison , V. Bairathi , J. G. Ball Cap , K. Barish , R. Bellwied , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , S. Bhatta , S. R. Bhosale , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , J. D. Brandenburg , C. Broodo , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , J. Ceska , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , B. K. Chan , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. Chen , J. H. Chen , Q. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , W. Christie , X. Chu , H. J. Crawford , M. Csanád , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , I. M. Deppner , A. Deshpande , A. Dhamija , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , C. J. Feng , Y. Feng , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , F. A. Flor , C. Fu , C. A. Gagliardi , T. Galatyuk , T. Gao , F. Geurts , N. Ghimire , A. Gibson , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. Hamed , Y. Han , S. Harabasz , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison-Smith , L. B. Havener , W. He , X. H. He , Y. He , N. Herrmann , L. Holub , C. Hu , Q. Hu , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , T. J. Humanic , M. Isshiki , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jalotra , C. Jena , A. Jentsch , Y. Ji , J. Jia , C. Jin , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , A. Khanal , Y. V. Khyzhniak , D. P. Kikoła , D. Kincses , I. Kisel , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , H. S. Ko , J. Kołaś , L. K. Kosarzewski , L. Kumar , M. C. Labonte , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , C. Li , D. Li , H-S. Li , H. Li , H. Li , W. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Y. Li , Z. Li , X. Liang , Y. Liang , R. Licenik , T. Lin , Y. Lin , M. A. Lisa , C. Liu , G. Liu , H. Liu , L. Liu , T. Liu , X. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , O. Lomicky , R. S. Longacre , E. M. Loyd , T. Lu , J. Luo , X. F. Luo , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , D. Mallick , R. Manikandhan , C. Markert , O. Matonoha , G. McNamara , O. Mezhanska , K. Mi , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , B. Mondal , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , J. Mrazkova , M. I. Nagy , C. J. Naim , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , D. Neff , J. M. Nelson , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , S. Pal , A. Pandav , A. Panday , A. K. Pandey , T. Pani , A. Paul , B. Pawlik , D. Pawlowska , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , B. R. Pokhrel , I. D. Ponce Pinto , M. Posik , T. L. Protzman , V. Prozorova , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , Z. Qin , H. Qiu , C. Racz , S. K. Radhakrishnan , A. Rana , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , C. W. Robertson , M. Robotkova , M. A. Rosales Aguilar , D. Roy , P. Roy Chowdhury , L. Ruan , A. K. Sahoo , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , S. Sato , B. C. Schaefer , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , F-J. Seck , J. Seger , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , P. V. Shanmuganathan , T. Shao , M. Sharma , N. Sharma , R. Sharma , S. R. Sharma , A. I. Sheikh , D. Shen , D. Y. Shen , K. Shen , S. S. Shi , Y. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , F. Si , J. Singh , S. Singha , P. Sinha , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , Y. Söhngen , Y. Song , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stefaniak , D. J. Stewart , Y. Su , M. Sumbera , C. Sun , X. Sun , Y. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , M. Svoboda , Z. W. Sweger , A. C. Tamis , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , S. Trentalange , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , T. Truhlar , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , C. Y. Tsang , Z. Tu , J. Tyler , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , J. Vanek , I. Vassiliev , V. Verkest , F. Videbæk , S. A. Voloshin , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. Wang , K. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , G. D. Westfall , D. Wielanek , H. Wieman , G. Wilks , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , J. Wu , J. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , B. Xi , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , G. Yan , Z. Yan , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , Y. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. J. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , M. Zhao , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

Effects of Momentum Conservation and Flow on Angular Correlations at RHIC

Correlations of azimuthal angles observed at RHIC have gained great attention due to the prospect of identifying fluctuations of parity-odd regions in the field sector of QCD. Whereas the observable of interest related to parity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-02 Scott Pratt , Soeren Schlichting , Sean Gavin

Challenging the utility of third-order azimuth harmonics in the description of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions

In recent years it has become conventional practice to include higher-order cylindrical harmonics in the phenomenological description of two-particle angular correlations from ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These model elements,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-16 R. L. Ray , D. J. Prindle , T. A. Trainor

Interplay of correlations and fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

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

Hydro overview

We review recent progress in applying relativistic hydrodynamics to the modeling of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC, with emphasis on anisotropic flow and flow fluctuations.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-15 Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Fernando G. Gardim

Constraining the initial temperature and shear viscosity in a hybrid hydrodynamic model of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV Au+Au collisions using pion spectra, elliptic flow, and femtoscopic radii

A new framework for evaluating hydrodynamic models of relativistic heavy ion collisions has been developed. This framework, a Comprehesive Heavy Ion Model Evaluation and Reporting Algorithm (CHIMERA) has been implemented by augmenting UVH…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-10 R. A. Soltz , I. Garishvili , M. Cheng , B. Abelev , A. Glenn , J. Newby , L. A. Linden Levy , S. Pratt

Event-plane dependent dihadron correlations with harmonic $v_n$ subtraction in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}=200$ GeV

STAR measurements of dihadron azimuthal correlations ($\Delta\phi$) are reported in mid-central (20-60\%) Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}=200$ GeV as a function of the trigger particle's azimuthal angle relative to the event…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-04-25 STAR Collaboration

Initial state fluctuations from mid-peripheral to ultra-central collisions in a event-by-event transport approach

We have developed a relativistic kinetic transport approach that incorporates initial state fluctuations allowing to study the build up of elliptic flow $v_2$ and high order harmonics $v_3$, $v_4$ and $v_5$ for a fluid at fixed $\eta/s(T)$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-23 Salvatore Plumari , Giovanni Luca Guardo , Francesco Scardina , Vincenzo Greco

NeXSPheRIO results on elliptic flow at RHIC and connection with thermalization

Elliptic flow at RHIC is computed event-by-event with NeXSPheRIO. Reasonable agreement with experimental results on $v_2(\eta)$ is obtained. Various effects are studied as well: reconstruction of impact parameter direction, freeze out…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Andrade , F. Grassi , Y. Hama , T. Kodama , O. Socolowski , B. Tavares

Elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 130 GeV

We report the elliptic flow of charged and identified particles at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=130$ GeV using the STAR TPC at RHIC. The integrated elliptic flow signal, $v_2$, for charged particles reaches values…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-18 R. J. M. Snellings , the STAR Collaboration

Higher-order symmetry plane correlations in Pb$-$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{{\it s}_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 5.02 TeV

The correlations between event-by-event fluctuations of symmetry planes are measured in Pb--Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 5.02 TeV recorded by the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-01 ALICE Collaboration

Symmetric-asymmetric collision comparison: disentangling nuclear structure and subnucleonic structure effects for small system flow

Previous flow measurements in small collision systems were mostly based on highly asymmetric collisions ($p$+Pb, $p$+Au, $d$+Au, $^{3}$He+Au), where both nuclear structure and subnucleonic fluctuations are important. Comparing these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Shengli Huang , Jiangyong Jia , Chunjian Zhang

Hydrodynamic radial and elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions from AGS to LHC energies

Using ideal relativistic hydrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions, we study the collision energy dependence of radial and elliptic flow, of the emitted hadron spectra, and of the transverse momentum dependence of several hadronic particle ratios,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Gregory Kestin , Ulrich W Heinz

Elliptic flow at collider energies and cascade string models: The role of hard processes and multi-Pomeron exchanges

Centrality, rapidity, and transverse momentum dependence of hadron elliptic flow is studied in Au+Au collisions at BNL RHIC energies within the microscopic quark-gluon string model. The QGSM predictions coincide well with the experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 E. E. Zabrodin , C. Fuchs , L. V. Bravina , Amand Faessler

On the origin of trigger-angle dependence of di-hadron correlations

The STAR Collaboration reported measurements of di-hadron azimuthal correlation in medium-central Au+Au collisions at 200 A$\,$GeV, where the data are presented as a function of the trigger particle's azimuthal angle relative to the event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Wei-Liang Qian , Rone Andrade , Fernando Gardim , Frederique Grassi , Yogiro Hama

Finding, and not finding, "higher harmonic flows"

Certain analysis methods have emerged recently that claim to reveal "higher harmonic flows" in more-central \aa collisions at the RHIC and LHC. But pQCD calculations describe the same structures quantitatively.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-19 Thomas A. Trainor

Beam Energy Dependence of the Third Harmonic of Azimuthal Correlations in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

We present results from a harmonic decomposition of two-particle azimuthal correlations measured with the STAR detector in Au+Au collisions for energies ranging from $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7$ GeV to 200 GeV. The third harmonic $v_3^2\{2\}=\langle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-03-23 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , X. Bai , V. Bairathi , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. Bouchet , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , S. Chattopadhyay , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , L. C. De Silva , R. R. Debbe , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , A. A. Derevschikov , B. di Ruzza , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , C. M. Du , L. E. Dunkelberger , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , J. Fedorisin , Z. Feng , P. Filip , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , D. Garand , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , L. Greiner , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , S. Gupta , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , R. Haque , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , S. Horvat , T. Huang , X. Huang , B. Huang , H. Z. Huang , P. Huck , T. J. Humanic , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , H. Jang , A. Jentsch , J. Jia , K. Jiang , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , Z. H. Khan , D. P. Kikoła , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , D. D. Koetke , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , L. Kumar , M. A. C. Lamont , J. M. Landgraf , K. D. Landry , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , X. Li , C. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , W. Li , T. Lin , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , R. Ma , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , L. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , A. Manion , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , D. McDonald , S. McKinzie , K. Meehan , J. C. Mei , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , B. K. Nandi , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , S. Y. Noh , J. Novak , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. X. Pan , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , P. Pile , J. Pluta , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , M. Posik , A. M. Poskanzer , N. K. Pruthi , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , S. Raniwala , R. Raniwala , R. L. Ray , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , I. Sakrejda , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , A. Sarkar , J. Schambach , R. P. Scharenberg , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , A. Sharma , B. Sharma , M. K. Sharma , W. Q. Shen , Z. Shi , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , S. Singha , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , W. Solyst , L. Song , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stepanov , R. Stock , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , Z. Sun , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , Z. Tang , A. H. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , A. Tawfik , J. Thäder , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , O. D. Tsai , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , M. Vandenbroucke , R. Varma , A. N. Vasiliev , R. Vertesi , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , F. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , H. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , G. Webb , J. C. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , W. Xie , G. Xie , K. Xin , Y. F. Xu , Q. H. Xu , N. Xu , H. Xu , Z. Xu , J. Xu , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Y. Yang , C. Yang , Y. Yang , Q. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , P. Yepes , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , X. P. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , S. Zhang , Z. Zhang , J. B. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , L. Zhou , X. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva , M. Zyzak

Reaction Plane and Beam Energy Dependence Of The Balance Function at RHIC

The balance function, which measures the correlation between opposite sign charge pairs, is sensitive to the mechanisms of charge formation and the subsequent relative diffusion of the balancing charges. The study of the balance function…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Hui Wang