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In this work, we present a model-independent method to quantify the non-Gaussian fluctuations in the observable distributions, which are assessed by the difference between the measured observable distributions and reconstructed observable…

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Particle momentum distributions originating from a quark-gluon plasma as produced in high-energy nuclear collisions can be influenced by thermal fluctuations in fluid dynamic fields. We study this effect by generalizing the commonly used…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Adrian Skasberg Aasen , Stefan Floerchinger , Giuliano Giacalone , Deniz Guenduez

An interesting opportunity to determine thermodynamic and transport properties in more detail is to identify generic statistical properties of initial density perturbations. Here we study event-by-event fluctuations in terms of correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-29 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We develop methods to deal with non-dynamical contributions to event-by-event fluctuation measurements of net-particle numbers in relativistic nuclear collisions. These contributions arise from impact parameter fluctuations and from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-09 P. Braun-Munzinger , A. Rustamov , J. Stachel

The system formed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions behaves as a nearly-perfect fluid. This collective behavior is probed experimentally by two-particle azimuthal correlations, which are typically averaged over the properties of one…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-28 Fernando G. Gardim , Frederique Grassi , Matthew Luzum , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We discuss an event-by-event fluctuation analysis of particle production in heavy ion collisions. We compare different approaches to the evaluation of the event-by-event dynamical fluctuations in quantities defined on groups of particles,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Voloshin , V. Koch , H. G. Ritter

In p-p collisions the average transverse momentum is known to be correlated with the multiplicity of produced particles. The correlation is shown to survive in a superposition model of nucleus-nucleus collisions. When properly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

The non-Gaussian measures of the particle number fluctuations -- skewness $S\sigma$ and kurtosis $\kappa \sigma^2$ -- are calculated in a vicinity of the critical point. This point corresponds to the end point of the first-order liquid-gas…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-22 V. Vovchenko , R. V. Poberezhnyuk , D. V. Anchishkin , M. I. Gorenstein

We study the observable $v_0(p_T)$, which quantifies the relative change of $p_T$ spectra induced by event-by-event density fluctuations in the medium created in heavy-ion collisions. This quantity provides a direct measure of radial flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Tribhuban Parida , Rupam Samanta , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

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

Event-by-event fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum (mean-$p_T$) provide a sensitive probe of collective dynamics beyond single-particle spectra and anisotropic flow. We present a systematic study of mean-$p_T$ fluctuation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Lipei Du

We study event-by-event dynamical fluctuations of various particle ratios at different energies. We assume that particle production in final state is due to chemical equilibrium processes. We compare results from resonance gas model with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-10 A. Tawfik

The preliminary NA49 results on the energy dependence of transverse momentum fluctuations over the whole SPS energy range exhibit an unexpected effect. The $\Phi_{p_{T}}$ fluctuation measure - used by the NA49 experiment - manifests a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Katarzyna Grebieszkow

The transverse momentum spectrum of charged particles in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions fluctuates event-by-event, encoding signatures of underlying collective dynamics. Such fluctuations originate from a combined effect of thermal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Rupam Samanta

Correlation measurements imply that anisotropic flow in nuclear collisions includes a novel triangular component along with the more familiar elliptic-flow contribution. Triangular flow has been attributed to event-wise fluctuations in the…

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

To reconstruct the impact parameter distributions from the selected events sample or centrality, which is defined by two-observables, at intermediate energy heavy ion collisions, we extend the approach proposed by Das \textit{et al.} [Phys.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Xiang Chen , Li Li , Ying Cui , Junping Yang , Zhuxia Li , Yingxun Zhang

We analyze a generic model where wounded quarks are amended with strings in which both end-point positions fluctuate in spatial rapidity. With the assumption that the strings emit particles independently of one another and with a uniform…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-13 Martin Rohrmoser , Wojciech Broniowski

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 behaviour of the transverse momentum fluctuations with the centrality of the collision shown by the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider data is naturally explained by the clustering of color sources. In this framework, elementary color…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. G. Ferreiro , F. del Moral , C. Pajares

We present first measurements of the pseudorapidity and azimuth $(\eta,\phi)$ bin-size dependence of event-wise mean transverse momentum $<p_{t} >$ fluctuations for Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV. We invert that dependence to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-06-25 STAR Collaboration , J. Adams