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Collisions between nuclei at ultrarelativistic energies produce a color-deconfined plasma that expands explosively and rapidly reverts to the color-confined (hadronic) state. In non-central collisions, the zone of hot matter is transversely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-06-10 M. A. Lisa , E. Frodermann , G. Graef , M. Mitrovski , E. Mount , H. Petersen , M. Bleicher

Event-by-event fluctuations in the amplitudes of flow harmonics offer a novel approach to probing the initial-state characteristics in heavy-ion collisions. In this study, we conduct a systematic investigation of correlations among various…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Zaining Wang , Jinhui Chen , Jiangyong Jia , Yu-Gang Ma , Chunjian Zhang

Heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies provide extreme conditions of energy density and temperature to produce a deconfined state of quarks and gluons. Xenon (Xe) being a deformed nucleus further gives access to the effect of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-19 Girija Sankar Pradhan , Rutuparna Rath , Ronald Scaria , Raghunath Sahoo

This paper investigates the relationship between initial spatial anisotropy and final state momentum anisotropy in heavy ion collisions through the analysis of elliptic flow ($v_2$) as a function of transverse momentum ($p_T$). Building…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-10 Mira Varma , Oliver Baker

The shape and orientation of colliding nuclei play a crucial role in determining the initial conditions of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which influence key observables such as anisotropic and radial flow. In these proceedings, we present…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-06 Chunjian Zhang

A central question in strong-interaction physics, governed by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), is whether femto-scale droplets of quark$-$gluon plasma (QGP) form in small collision systems involving projectiles significantly smaller than heavy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-09-09 ALICE Collaboration

We have obtained a new set of parameters in a multiphase transport (AMPT) model that are able to describe both the charged particle multiplicity density and elliptic flow measured in Au+Au collisions at center of mass energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-21 Jun Xu , Che Ming Ko

To understand the true origin of flowlike signatures and applicability of hydrodynamics in small collision systems, effects of soft QCD dynamics, the sensitivity of jetlike correlations, and nonequilibrium effects, efforts are being made to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-18 Debadatta Behera , Suraj Prasad , Neelkamal Mallick , Raghunath Sahoo

Anisotropic flow of hadronic matter is considered as a sensitive tool to detect the early stage dynamics of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Taking the event by event fluctuations of the collision geometry into account, the elliptic flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-17 Soumya Sarkar , Provash Mali , Amitabha Mukhopadhyay

The magnitude of anisotropic flow in a nucleus-nucleus collision is determined by the energy density field, $\rho(x,y,z)$, created right after the collision occurs. Specifically, elliptic flow, $v_2$, and triangular flow, $v_3$, are…

Anisotropies of hadronic distribution in nuclear collisions are used for determination of properties of the nuclear matter. At the LHC it is important to account for the contribution to the flow due to momentum transferred from hard partons…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-03 Boris Tomasik , Martin Schulc

It is important to understand whether $\alpha$-clustering structures can leave traces in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Using the modified AMPT model, we simulate three $\alpha$ + core configurations of $^{44}$Ti in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-05 Yu-Xuan Zhang , Song Zhang , Yu-Gang Ma

The nuclear overlap zone in non-central relativistic heavy ion collisions is azimuthally very asymmetric. By varying the angle between the axes of deformation and the transverse direction of the pair momenta, the transverse HBT radii…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Heiselberg

One of the most vital topics of today's high-energy nuclear physics is the investigation of the nuclear structure of the collided nuclei. Recent studies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Daniel Kincses

The study of anisotropic harmonic flow coefficients $ v_{n}$(n=2,3,4) is performed in Xe-Xe collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.44 TeV under Monte Carlo HYDJET++ model (HYDrodynamics plus JETs) framework. Anisotropic flow of identified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-06 Saraswati Pandey , B. K. Singh

In the framework of the Glauber approach we analyze the shape parameters of the early-formed system and their event-by-event fluctuations. We test a variety of models: the conventional wounded nucleon model, a model admixing binary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Wojciech Broniowski , Piotr Bozek , Maciej Rybczynski

Isobar collisions, $^{96}_{44}$Ru+$^{96}_{44}$Ru and $^{96}_{40}$Zr+$^{96}_{40}$Zr, at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm {NN}}}$ = 200 GeV have been performed at RHIC in order to study the charge separation along the magnetic field, called the Chiral…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-14 Priyanshi Sinha

Xe+Xe collision at relativistic energies may provide us with a partonic system whose size is approximately in between those produced by p+p and Pb+Pb collisions. The experimental results on anisotropic flow in Xe+Xe and Pb+Pb collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-14 Sushanta Tripathy , Sudipan De , Mohammed Younus , Raghunath Sahoo

Correlations between mean transverse momentum $[p_{\rm T}]$ and anisotropic flow coefficients $v_{\rm 2}$ or $v_{\rm 3}$ are measured as a function of centrality in Pb$-$Pb and Xe$-$Xe collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV and 5.44…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-12-02 ALICE Collaboration

The hydrodynamic flow-like behavior of charged hadrons in high-energy lead-lead collisions is studied through multiparticle correlations. The elliptic anisotropy values based on different orders of multiparticle cumulants, $v_{2}\{2k\}$,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-02-20 CMS Collaboration