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The decorrelation of the orientation of the event-plane angles in the initial state of relativistic Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions, the "torque effect," is studied in a model of entropy deposition in the longitudinal direction involving…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

The only way to obtain the space-time structure of heavy ion collision is through the study of two-particle momentum correlations. Thus we have studied the intensity correlation for the photons having fixed transverse momentum of one of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-17 Payal Mohanty , Mahatsab Mandal , Pradip K Roy

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

Theoretical calculations are performed to investigate the angular momentum and Coulomb effects on fragmentation and multifragmentation in peripheral heavy-ion collisions at Fermi energies. Inhomogeneous distributions of hot fragments in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-14 A. Ergun , H. Imal , N. Buyukcizmeci , R. Ogul , A. S. Botvina

Fluctuations in the initial transverse energy-density distribution lead to anisotropic flows as observed in central high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Studies of longitudinal fluctuations of the anisotropic flows can shed further light on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-24 Long-Gang Pang , Guang-You Qin , Victor Roy , Xin-Nian Wang , Guo-Liang Ma

Multi-particle correlations between azimuthal angle and mean transverse momentum are a powerful tool for probing size and shape correlations in the initial conditions of heavy-ion collisions. These correlations have also been employed to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-07 Emil Gorm Dahlbæk Nielsen , Nina Nathanson , Kristjan Gulbrandsen , You Zhou

LHC data on the correlations of the elliptic flow $v_2$ of particles at low and high transverse momenta $p_T$ from Pb+Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV are analyzed in the framework of the…

In nuclear collisions at highest accessible LHC energies, often more than one dijet pairs deposit momentum into the deconfined expanding medium. With the help of 3+1 dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulation we show that this leads…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-03 Martin Schulc , Boris Tomasik

The transverse momentum anisotropy of the particles produced in heavy ion collisions is one of the most important experimental observable to investigate the collective behavior of the systems created in such collisions. Recent studies show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Jun Takahashi , Rafael Derradi de Souza , David Dobrigkeit Chinellato

Based on the quark coalescence model, we derive relations among the momentum anisotropies of mesons and baryons in relativistic heavy ion collisions from a given, but arbitrary azimuthal distribution for the partons. Besides the familiar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter F. Kolb , Lie-Wen Chen , Vincenzo Greco , Che Ming Ko

Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a unique window into far-from-equilibrium states of QCD matter. The initial stages of these events are characterized by highly anisotropic, nonthermal dynamics that precede hydrodynamization,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 João Barata , José Guilherme Milhano , Andrey V. Sadofyev , João M. Silva

Effects of the collision geometry on experimental observables that are known to be sensitive to the high-density behavior of nuclear symmetry energy are examined in U+U collisions at 0.52 GeV/nucleon using an isospin- and momentum-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-11-02 Jun Xu , Zachary Martinot , Bao-An Li

Background: The role of angular momentum in fission has long been discussed but the observable effects are difficult to quantify. Purpose: We discuss a variety of effects associated with angular momentum in fission and present quantitative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 R. Vogt , J. Randrup

Employing the Polyakov chiral SU(3) mean field (PCQMF) model, we investigate how momentum-space anisotropy, characteristic of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions (uRHIC), impacts the thermodynamic behavior and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-26 Dhananjay Singh , Arvind Kumar

We study transverse momentum anisotropies, in particular, the elliptic flow $v_2$ due to the interference effect sourced by valence quarks in high-energy hadron-hadron collisions. Our main formula is derived as the high-energy (eikonal)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-14 Meijian Li , Wenyang Qian , Bin Wu , Hong Zhang

In the transition from nuclear matter to finite nuclei, complex finite-size effects which characterise open systems arise, in relation with either the nuclear surface or the bulk. In addition, the non-equilibrium character of the process,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-28 P. Napolitani , H. Dinh Viet , M. Colonna

A large anti-correlation signal between elliptic flow $v_2$ and average transverse momentum $[p_{\mathrm{T}}]$ was recently measured in small collision systems, consistent with a final-state hydrodynamic response to the initial geometry.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-04 Chunjian Zhang , Arabinda Behera , Somadutta Bhatta , Jiangyong Jia

The suppression of D mesons in non-central heavy-ion collisions is investigated. The anisotropy in collisions at finite impact parameter leads to an ordering of all-angle, in- and out-of-plane nuclear modification factors due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Marlene Nahrgang , Jörg Aichelin , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner

Full-overlap U+U collisions provide significantly larger initial energy densities at comparable spatial deformation, and significantly larger deformation and volume at comparable energy density, than semicentral Au+Au collisions. We show…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Ulrich Heinz , Anthony Kuhlman