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Measurements of longitudinal flow decorrelations are presented for charged particles in the pseudorapidity range $|\eta|<2.4$ using 7 $\mu$b$^{-1}$ and 470 $\mu$b$^{-1}$ of Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}}=2.76$ and 5.02 TeV,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-02-21 ATLAS Collaboration

Fluctuations in nucleon positions can affect the spatial eccentricity of the overlap zone in nucleus-nucleus collisions. We show that elliptic flow should be scaled by different eccentricities depending on which method is used for the flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We study the transverse momentum ($p_T$) differential anisotropic flow and flow fluctuation in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=5.02 TeV at the LHC. A (3+1)-dimensional CLVisc hydrodynamics framework with fluctuating TRENTO (or AMPT)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-30 Jie Zhu , Xiang-Yu Wu , Guang-You Qin

Anisotropic azimuthal correlations are used to probe the properties and the evolution of the system created in heavy-ion collisions. Two-particle azimuthal correlations were used in the searches of $p_{\rm T}$ dependent fluctuations of flow…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-03-26 You Zhou

A new analytical approach is presented for analysis of two-particle azimuthal correlations in heavy ion collisions at relativistic energies. This approach suggests that elliptic flow measured by experiment has a compound structure, namely,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Okorokov

In heavy-ion collisions, momentum-dependent pair correlations can be characterized by a principal component analysis (PCA), in which subleading modes are expected to reveal new information on flow fluctuations. However, we find that, as…

Applicability of anisotropic flow measurement techniques and their extension for detectors with non-uniform azimuthal acceptance are discussed. Considering anisotropic flow measurement with two and three (mixed harmonic) azimuthal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ilya Selyuzhenkov , Sergei Voloshin

The event-by-event fluctuations in the initial energy density of the nuclear collisions lead to the decorrelation of second order flow vector, as known as its transverse-momentum ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) and pseudorapidity ($\eta$) dependence as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Siyu Tang , Zuman Zhang , Chao Zhang , Liang Zheng , Renzhuo Wan

We present a number of independent flow observables that can be measured using multiparticle azimuthal correlations in heavy-ion collisions. Some of these observables are already well known, such as v2{2} and v2{4}, but most are new--in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-06-18 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Matthew Luzum , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Collective anisotropic flow, where particles are correlated over the entire event, is a prominent phenomenon in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and is sensitive to the properties of the matter created in those collisions. It is often…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-12-19 Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang Wang

The LHC data on event-by-event harmonic flow coefficients measured in PbPb collisions at center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair are analyzed and interpreted within the HYDJET++ model. To compare the model results with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-29 L. V. Bravina , E. S. Fotina , V. L. Korotkikh , I. P. Lokhtin , L. V. Malinina , E. N. Nazarova , S. V. Petrushanko , A. M. Snigirev , E. E. Zabrodin

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

We study the longitudinal decorrelations of elliptic, triangular and quadrangular flows in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC energies. The event-by-event CLVisc (3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamics model, combined with the fully…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Xiang-Yu Wu , Long-Gang Pang , Guang-You Qin , Xin-Nian Wang

Anisotropic flow coefficients and their fluctuations are investigated for Au+Au collisions at center of mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV by using a multi-phase transport model with string melting scenario. Experimental results of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 L. Ma , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma

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

The information of the event-by-event fluctuations is extracted from flow harmonic distributions and cumulants, which can be done experimentally. In this work, we employ the standard method of Gram-Charlier series with the normal kernel to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Hadi Mehrabpour

We propose that flow fluctuations have the same origin as transverse momentum fluctuations. The common source of these fluctuations is the spatially inhomogeneous initial state that drives hydrodynamic flow. Longitudinal correlations from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Sean Gavin , George Moschelli

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

A detailed study of multi-particle azimuthal correlations is presented using $pp$ data at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ and 13 TeV, and $p$+Pb data at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The azimuthal correlations…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-21 ATLAS Collaboration

Recent results on event-by-event mean transverse momentum, $\mpt$, fluctuations in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions are briefly reviewed. We conclude that the observed fluctuations are in a rough agreement with that expected for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei A. Voloshin