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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

Motivated by forthcoming experiments at RHIC and LHC, we study event-by-event fluctuations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions in participant nucleon as well as thermal models. The calculated physical observables, including…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Baym , H. Heiselberg

We present our analysis of the available experimental data on correlation between mean transverse momentum and charged particles multiplicity ($\langle p_T \rangle$-$N_{ch}$) at central rapidity in $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-16 E. O. Bodnya , V. N. Kovalenko , A. M. Puchkov , G. A. Feofilov

Four models for the initial conditions of a fluid dynamic description of high energy heavy ion collisions are analysed and compared. We study expectation values and event-by-event fluctuations in the initial transverse energy density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-01 Stefan Floerchinger , Eduardo Grossi , Kianusch Vahid Yousefnia

Recent surveys of multiplicity fluctuations, transverse momentum fluctuations, and two-particle azimuthal correlations are presented for several collision systems as a function of centrality and transverse momentum. Both multiplicity and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 J. T. Mitchell

The motion of energetic particles in magnetic turbulence across a mean magnetic field is explored analytically. The approach presented here allows for a full time-dependent description of the transport, including compound sub-diffusion. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Andreas Shalchi

A simple geometrical model (often quoted in literature as the Glauber model) of heavy ion collisions is recapitulated. It is shown that the transverse energy distribution of heavy ion collisions follow the geometry of the collision. An…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 R. Lietava

Volume or centrality fluctuations (CF) is one of the main uncertainties for interpreting the centrality dependence of many experimental observables. The CF is constrained by centrality selection based on particle multiplicity in a reference…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-24 Mingliang Zhou , Jiangyong Jia

Fluid dynamical models preceded the first heavy ion accelerator experiments, and led to the main trend of this research since then. In recent years fluid dynamical processes became a dominant direction of research in high energy heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 L. P. Csernai , H. Stoecker

Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions produce a state of hot and dense strongly interacting QCD matter called quark--gluon plasma (QGP). On an event-by-event basis, the volume of the QGP in ultracentral collisions is mostly constant, while…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-14 ALICE Collaboration

Considering a dilute-dense situation suitable for pA collisions, we compute in the Color Glass Condensate the correlation between azimuthal asymmetries, specifically the squared second Fourier coefficient $v_2^2$, and the total multiplicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-30 Tolga Altinoluk , Néstor Armesto , Alex Kovner , Michael Lublinsky , Vladimir V. Skokov

The strength of transverse flow is examined as a function of transverse momentum $p_t$ using a simple, transversely moving thermal model and a more realistic, relativistic transport model (ART). It is shown that the $p_t$ dependence reveals…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Bao-An Li , C. M. Ko , G. Q. Li

From the correlation structure of transverse momentum $p_t$ in relativistic nuclear collisions we observe for the first time temperature/velocity structure resulting from low-$Q^2$ partons. Our novel analysis technique does not invoke an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas A Trainor , Duncan J Prindle

In-medium effects on transverse-mass distributions of quarks and gluons are considered assuming a possible local equilibrium for colorless quark objects (mesons and baryons) created in central A-A collisions. It is shown that the average…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 G. I. Lykasov , A. N. Sissakian , A. S. Sorin , V. D. Toneev

To assess the properties of the quark-gluon plasma formed in nuclear collisions, the Pearson correlation coefficient between flow harmonics and mean transverse momentum, $\rho\left(v_{n}^{2},\left[p_{\mathrm{T}}\right]\right)$, reflecting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-08 Chunjian Zhang , Jiangyong Jia , Shengli Huang

We explain how event-by-event fluctuations of particle ratios can constrain and falsify the statistical model of particle production in heavy ion collisions, using $K/\pi$ fluctuations as an example. We define an observable capable of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Giorgio Torrieri

We present an insightful ``derivation'' of the Langevin equation and the fluctuation dissipation theorem in the specific context of a heavier particle moving through an ideal gas of much lighter particles. The Newton's Law of motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rangan Lahiri , Arvind , Anirban Sain

In the framework of percolation of color sources, the transverse momentum distribution in heavy ion and $p+p$ collisions at all centralities and energies are shown to follow a universal behaviour. The width of the distribution depends on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Dias de Deus , E. G. Ferreiro , C. Pajares , R. Ugoccioni

The mean transverse momentum of produced particles, [pt], and its event-by-event fluctuations give direct access to the initial conditions of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and help probe the colliding nuclei's structure. The [pt]…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-04 Emil Gorm Dahlbæk Nielsen , Frederik K. Rømer , Kristjan Gulbrandsen , You Zhou

Within wall turbulence, there is a sublayer where the mean wall-normal flux of the streamwise momentum is constant and related to the logarithmic wall-normal profile of the mean streamwise velocity. This relation, i.e., the law of the wall,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-04 H. Mouri , J. Ito