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The transverse momentum anisotropy of the particles produced in heavy ion collisions is one of the most important experimental observable to investigate the collective behavior of the systems created in such collisions. Recent studies show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Jun Takahashi , Rafael Derradi de Souza , David Dobrigkeit Chinellato

Relativistic heavy ion collisions have reached energies that enable the creation of a novel state of matter termed the quark-gluon plasma. Many observables point to a picture of the medium as rapidly equilibrating and expanding as a nearly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 James L. Nagle , Ian G. Bearden , William A. Zajc

We suggest to perform systematic measurements of the elliptic flow fluctuations which are sensitive to the early stage dynamics of heavy-ion collisions at high-energies. Significant flow fluctuations are shown to be generated due to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislaw Mrowczynski , Edward Shuryak

One of the long-standing problems in the field of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is that the dynamical models based on viscous hydrodynamics fail to describe the experimental elliptic flow $v_2$ and the triangular flow $v_3$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-31 Kenshi Kuroki , Azumi Sakai , Koichi Murase , Tetsufumi Hirano

Collective anisotropic particle flow, a general phenomenon present in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, can be separated from direct particle-particle correlations of different physics origin by virtue of its specific azimuthal pattern. We…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Bielcikova , S. Esumi , K. Filimonov , S. Voloshin , J. P. Wurm

Flow has emerged as a crucial probe for the properties of the thermalized medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The evolution of initial state fluctuations leaves imprints on the power spectrum of flow coefficients.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-29 Shreyansh S. Dave , Saumia P. S. , Ajit M. Srivastava

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…

In this proceedings contribution I review recent progress in our understanding of the bulk dynamics of relativistic systems that possess potentially large local rest frame momentum-space anisotropies. In order to deal with these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-17 Michael Strickland

In the context of event-by-event hydrodynamic description, we analyze the implications of two models characterized by distinct initial conditions. The initial energy density of the first model adopts a Gaussian-type distribution, while…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-02 Dan Wen , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Yogiro Hama , Takeshi Kodama

To study the microscopic structure of quark-gluon plasma, data from hadronic collisions must be confronted with models that go beyond fluid dynamics. Here, we study a simple kinetic theory model that encompasses fluid dynamics but contains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Aleksi Kurkela , Urs Achim Wiedemann , Bin Wu

We present event-by-event viscous hydrodynamic calculations of the anisotropic flow coefficients v_2 to v_5 for heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). We study the dependence of different flow harmonics on shear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Bjoern Schenke , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

The longitudinal structure of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) consists of several components spanning various scales. However, its short-range features are often obscured by final-state non-flow correlations. Here, we introduce a data-driven…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-28 Jiangyong Jia , Shengli Huang , Chunjian Zhang , Somadutta Bhatta

Motivated by recent interest in collectivity in small systems, we calculate the harmonic flow response to initial geometry deformations within weakly coupled QCD kinetic theory using the first correction to the free-streaming background. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-14 Aleksi Kurkela , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Robin Törnkvist

With A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) model we investigate the relation between the magnitude, fluctuations and correlations of the initial state spatial anisotropy $\varepsilon_{n}$ and the final state anisotropic flow coefficients $v_{n}$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-03-23 You Zhou , Kai Xiao , Zhao Feng , Feng Liu , Raimond Snellings

The quark gluon plasma generated in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions may possess sizable momentum-space anisotropies that cause the longitudinal and transverse pressures in the local rest frame to be significantly different. We review…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Michael Strickland

Hadron spectra and elliptic flow in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are studied within a (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic model with fluctuating initial conditions given by the AMPT Monte Carlo model. Results from event-by-event simulations are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-09-20 Longgang Pang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

A systemical analysis of the initial fluctuation effect on the collective flows for Au+Au at 1$A$ GeV has been presented in the framework of Isospin-dependent Quantum Molecular Dynamics model (IQMD), and a special focus on the initial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Jia Wang , Yu-Gang Ma , Guo-Qiang Zhang , Wen-Qing Shen

We present a complete set of multiparticle correlation observables for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. These include moments of the distribution of the anisotropic flow in a single harmonic, and also mixed moments, which contain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-26 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Subrata Pal

This contribution presents a theoretical overview of hydrodynamic modelling of heavy-ion collisions, with highlights on some recent developments. In particular, the formulation of anisotropic hydrodynamics, the role of hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Li Yan

Evolution of spatially anisotropic perturbation created in the system formed after Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions has been studied. The microscopic evolution of the fluctuations has been examined within the ambit of Boltzmann Transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-19 Golam Sarwar , Jan-e Alam