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We show that flow anisotropies in relativistic heavy-ion collisions can be analyzed using a certain technique of shape analysis of excursion sets recently proposed by us for CMBR fluctuations to investigate anisotropic expansion history of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Ranjita K. Mohapatra , P. S. Saumia , Ajit M. Srivastava

Event-by-event fluctuations in the initial density distributions of the fireballs created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions lead to event-by-event fluctuations of the final anisotropic flow angles, and density inhomogeneities in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-01 Ulrich W. Heinz , Zhi Qiu , Chun Shen

A generalization of the phenomenological blast-wave-Tsallis-power model, recently proposed by the author for the hadrons transverse momentum ($p_\textrm{T}$) spectra measured at the LHC, is developed to also describe the hadrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-12 Smbat Grigoryan

The highest LHC energies give rise to production of many pairs of hard partons which deposit four-momentum into the expanding fireball matter. We argue that it is necessary to include momentum deposition during fireball evolution into 3+1…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Martin Schulc , Boris Tomasik

The anisotropy parameter v_2, the second harmonic of the azimuthal particles distribution, has been measured with the PHENIX detector in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV for identified and inclusive charged particles at central…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 PHENIX Collaboration , S. S. Adler

Measurements of elliptic ($v_2$) and triangular ($v_3$) flow coefficients of $\pi^{\pm}$, K$^{\pm}$, p+$\rm \overline{p}$, K$^0_{\rm S}$, and $\Lambda + \overline{\Lambda}$ obtained with the scalar product method in Xe-Xe collisions at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-01-14 ALICE Collaboration

We investigate the robustness of the discovery of the perfect fluid through comparison of hydrodynamic calculations with the elliptic flow coefficient v_2 at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV. Employing the Glauber…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tetsufumi Hirano , Ulrich W. Heinz , Dmitri Kharzeev , Roy Lacey , Yasushi Nara

We analyze the second Fourier coefficient $v_2$ of the pion azimuthal distribution in non-central heavy-ion collisions in a relativistic hydrodynamic model. The exact treatment of the decay kinematics of resonances leads to almost vanishing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Tetsufumi Hirano

In this paper, by using a Tsallis-Pareto-type function and the multisource thermal model, the elliptic flow coefficients of particles $\pi ^{\pm }$, $K^{\pm }$, $p+\overline{p}$, $\Lambda +\overline{% \Lambda }$, and $K_{S}^{0}$ produced in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-13 Er-Qin Wang , Yin-Qun Ma , Li-Na Gao , San-Hong Fan

The azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles in heavy ion collisions is an important probe of quark-gluon plasma evolution at early stages. In the present paper the elliptic flow pattern in Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt{s}=5.5 TeV is analyzed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 L. V. Bravina , G. Kh. Eyyubova , V. L. Korotkikh , I. P. Lokhtin , L. V. Malinina , S. V. Petrushanko , A. M. Snigirev , E. E. Zabrodin

We use the string melting version of a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model to study Cu+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV. The rapidity distributions of identified hadrons show asymmetric dependences on rapidity. In addition, elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Yuncun He , Zi-Wei Lin

The elliptic flow parameter (component), $v_2$, in the Fourier expansion of event-by-event charged particle multiplicity azimuthal distribution in the momentum space is studied by taking into account the multiplicity fluctuations. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-23 Dai-Mei Zhou , Yun Cheng , Yu-Liang Yan , Bao-Guo Dong , Ben-Hao Sa , Laszlo P. Csernai

We calculate the transverse momentum and invariant mass dependence of elliptic flow of thermal dileptons for Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The system is described using hydrodynamics, with the assumption of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rupa Chatterjee , Dinesh K. Srivastava , Ulrich W. Heinz , Charles Gale

We study elliptic and triangular flow in the collisions of deuteron-gold nuclei at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 200$ GeV at RHIC and of proton-lead nuclei at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV at the LHC, utilizing (3+1)-dimensional ideal hydrodynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Guang-You Qin , Berndt Müller

Elliptic flow holds much promise for studying the early-time thermalization attained in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. Flow measurements also provide a means of distinguishing between hydrodynamic models and calculations which…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 STAR collaboration

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the elliptic flow coefficient, $v_2$, for charged hadrons at mid-rapidity in d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 200\mathrm{~GeV}$. Utilizing the AMPT model in both default and string…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Jaideep Tanwar , Ishu Aggarwal , Vipul Bairathi , Lokesh Kumar , Sonia Kabana

We calculate the elliptic flow of bottomonia produced in Pb$\,+\,$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02$ TeV. We consider temperature-dependent decay widths for the anisotropic escape of various bottomonium states and observe that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-09 Partha Pratim Bhaduri , Mubarak Alqahtani , Nicolas Borghini , Amaresh Jaiswal , Michael Strickland

Single-particle spectra and two-particle Bose-Einstein correlation functions are determined analytically utilizing a self-similar solution of non-relativistic hydrodynamics for ellipsoidally-symmetric, expanding fireballs, by assuming that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Csörgő , S. V. Akkelin , Y. Hama , B. Lukács , Yu. M. Sinyukov

The $p_{\rm{T}}$-differential non-linear flow modes, $v_{4,22}$, $v_{5,32}$, $v_{6,33}$ and $v_{6,222}$ for $\pi^{\pm}$, $\rm{K}^{\pm}$ , $\rm{K}^{0}_{S}$ , p + $\overline{\rm{p}}$, $\Lambda$ + $\overline{\Lambda}$ and $\phi$-meson have…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-07-02 ALICE Collaboration

$p_t$-differential quantity $v_2(p_t)$ is meant to measure elliptic flow manifested by a dense QCD medium formed in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. Elliptic flow may be referred to more neutrally as a cylindrical quadrupole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Thomas A. Trainor