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Machine learning methods based on normalizing flows have been shown to address important challenges, such as critical slowing-down and topological freezing, in the sampling of gauge field configurations in simple lattice field theories. A…

We compute the time evolution of elliptic flow in non-central relativistic heavy-ion collisions, using a (2+1)-dimensional code with longitudinal boost-invariance to simulate viscous fluid dynamics in the causal Israel-Stewart formulation.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Huichao Song , Ulrich W. Heinz

We consider the development of anisotropic flow in an expanding system of particles undergoing very few rescatterings, using a kinetic-theoretical description with a nonlinear collision term. We derive the scaling behaviors of the harmonic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-29 Nicolas Borghini , Steffen Feld , Nina Kersting

The collective flow generated in relativistic heavy-ion collisions fluctuates from event to event. The fluctuations lead to a decorrelation of flow vectors measured in separate bins in phase space. These effects have been measured in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-21 Piotr Bozek , Hadi Mehrabpour

This study presents generalization of the Landau hydrodynamic solution for multiparticle production applied to non-central relativistic heavy ion collisions. Obtained results shows longitudinal scaling of elliptic flow $v_2$ as a function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-17 Karolis Tamosiunas

We report measurements of charged particle elliptic flow %($v_2$) at mid-rapidity in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=62$ and 200 GeV. Using correlations between main STAR TPC and Forward TPCs ensures minimal bias due to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei A. Voloshin

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been quite successful in explaining the collective behaviour of the QCD matter produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. We briefly review the latest developments in the hydrodynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-28 Amaresh Jaiswal , Victor Roy

It has been argued that high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions at the LHC may exhibit collective phenomena usually studied in the context of heavy-ion collisions, such as elliptic flow. We study this issue using DIPSY - a Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 Emil Avsar , Christoffer Flensburg , Yoshitaka Hatta , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Takahiro Ueda

The elliptical flow of fragments is studied for different systems at incident energies between 50 and 1000 MeV/nucleon using the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics (IQMD) model. Our findings reveal that elliptical flow shows a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Sanjeev Kumar , Suneel Kumar , Rajeev K. Puri

The initial geometry effect on collective flows, which are inherited from initial projectile structure, is studied in relativistic heavy-ion collisions of $^{12}$C + Au by using a multi-phase transport model (AMPT). Elliptic flow ($v_2$)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-21 S. Zhang , Y. G. Ma , J. H. Chen , W. B. He , C. Zhong

I compare the first viscous hydrodynamic prediction for integrated elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC with the first data released by the ALICE collaboration. These new data are found to be consistent with hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 Matthew Luzum

Collective flow coefficients and spin polarization are valuable probes of the geometry and flow velocity field of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Using a modified TRENTo initial condition coupled…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Ze-Fang Jiang , Shanshan Cao , Ben-Wei Zhang

Using a partonic transport model based on the 3-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and a relativistic hadronic transport model to describe, respectively, the evolution of the initial partonic and the final hadronic phase of heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-15 Jun Xu , Taesoo Song , Che Ming Ko , Feng Li

We consider various methods of flow analysis in heavy ion collisions and compare experimental data on corresponding observables to the predictions of our saturation model proposed earlier. We demonstrate that, due to the nature of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuri V. Kovchegov , Kirill L. Tuchin

The relative correlation between the magnitudes of elliptic flow ($v_2$) and triangular flow ($v_3$) has been accurately measured in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC collider. As a function of the centrality of the collision, it…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Mubarak Alqahtani , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

In collisions between heavy nuclei, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, hydrodynamic models have successfully related measured azimuthal momentum anisotropies to the transverse shape of the collision region. For an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Christian Bierlich , Peter Christiansen , Gösta Gustafson , Leif Lönnblad , Robin Törnkvist , Korinna Zapp

In this study, we report the predictions for the flow observables for different centrality classes in $O+O$ collisions. Our predictions utilize two different approaches, hydrodynamic and transport models, to analyze the behavior of the flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-23 Jagbir Singh , M. U. Ashraf , A. M. Khan , S. Kabana

I overview the recent progress of phenomenological studies exploring collective dynamics in relativistic nuclear collisions to understand various QCD properties. Originally, collectivity was interpreted as a manifestation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-18 Yuuka Kanakubo

Light-front QCD is studied by the method of flow equations. Dynamical gluon mass is generated, which evolves with the cut-off according to renormalization group equation. Eliminating by flow equations the quark gluon coupling with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Gubankova

Directed and elliptic flow of protons and positively charged pions has been studied in the target fragmentation region using the Plastic Ball detector in the WA98 experiment. The results exhibit a strong dependence on centrality, rapidity,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 WA98 Collaboration , H. Schlagheck