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We present a new method for analyzing directed and elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions. Unlike standard methods, it separates the contribution of flow to azimuthal correlations from contributions due to other effects. The separation…

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Accurately estimating high quantiles beyond the largest observed value is crucial for risk assessment and devising effective adaptation strategies to prevent a greater disaster. The generalized extreme value distribution is widely used for…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-24 Yonggwan Shin , Yire Shin , Jeong-Soo Park

A measurement of correlations between event-plane angles $\Phi_n$ is presented as a function of centrality for Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}}=2.76$ TeV. These correlations are estimated from observed event-plane angles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jiangyong Jia

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…

The ALICE detector at the LHC is used to study the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions. As a reference measurement, also the analysis of proton-proton (pp) collisions is very important. In the study…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 S. T. Heckel

The event-by-event correlations between three flow amplitudes are measured for the first time in Pb--Pb collisions, using higher-order Symmetric Cumulants. We find that different three-harmonic correlations develop during the collective…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-12-10 ALICE Collaboration

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

Particle collisions are the primary mechanism of inter-particle momentum and energy exchange for dense particle-laden flow. Accurate approximation of this collision operator in four-way coupled Euler-Lagrange approaches remains challenging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Anna Schwarz , Patrick Kopper , Emilian De Staercke , Andrea Beck

In heavy-ion collision experiments, the global collectivity of final-state particles can be quantified by anisotropic flow coefficients ($v_n$). The first-order flow coefficient, also referred to as the directed flow ($v_{1}$), describes…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-06-27 STAR Collaboration

We propose several new observables/correlators, based on correlations between two or more subevents separated in pseudorapidity $\eta$, to study the longitudinal flow fluctuations. We show that these observables are sensitive to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Jiangyong Jia , Peng Huo , Guoliang Ma , Maowu Nie

In this paper, we consider distributed maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) with dependent quantized data under the assumption that the structure of the joint probability density function (pdf) is known, but it contains unknown deterministic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Xiaojing Shen , Pramod K. Varshney , Yunmin Zhu

Event-by-event fluctuations caused by quantum mechanical fluctuations in the wave function of colliding nuclei in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions were recently shown to be necessary for the simultaneous description of $R_{AA}$ as…

This work presents data analysis on Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$=2.76 TeV with centrality $40\%-50\%$. We present introduction and Monte-Carlo simulation results of the Glauber model, which shed light on the initial geometric…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-07-13 Ce-ran Hu , Wen-tao He , Cheng-ze Lyu , Kang-jie Yang , Lily Yao , Rui-chong Zhao

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

We report on measurements of a charge-dependent flow using a novel three-particle correlator with ALICE in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC, and discuss the implications for observation of local parity violation and the Chiral Magnetic Wave…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-05-25 ALICE Collaboration

Measurements of flow coefficients and correlations between different types of particles are used to characterise the properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. Moreover, these precise measurements became a key…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-01-18 Lucia Anna Tarasovičová

There have been many applications of deep neural networks to detector calibrations and a growing number of studies that propose deep generative models as automated fast detector simulators. We show that these two tasks can be unified by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-14 Haoxing Du , Claudius Krause , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Ian Pang , David Shih

We explore the dependence of the pT correlations in the event-by-event analysis of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC made recently by the PHENIX and STAR Collaborations. We point out that the observed scaling of strength of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 W. Broniowski , W. Florkowski , B. Hiller , P. Bozek

The principal component analysis of flow correlations in heavy-ion collisions is studied. The correlation matrix of harmonic flow is generalized to correlations involving several different flow vectors. The method can be applied to study…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Piotr Bozek

Event-by-event fluctuations of the event-wise mean transverse momentum, $\langle p_{\mathrm{T}}\rangle$, of charged particles produced in proton$-$proton (pp) collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 5.02 TeV, Xe$-$Xe collisions at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-01 ALICE Collaboration