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Anisotropic flow and radial flow are two key probes of the expansion dynamics and properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). While anisotropic flow has been extensively studied, radial flow, which governs the system's radial expansion, has…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-28 ATLAS Collaboration

Radial flow, a key collective phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions, manifests itself through event-by-event fluctuations of transverse-momentum ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) spectra. The $p_{\mathrm{T}}$-differential radial flow observable,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Somadutta Bhatta , Aman Dimri , Jiangyong Jia

We present a systematic investigation of the transverse-momentum differential radial flow fluctuations observable $v_0(p_T)$ in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at top RHIC ($\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}{\,=\,}200$ GeV) and LHC…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-09 Lipei Du

The observable $v_0(\pt)$, which quantifies event-by-event fluctuations in the differential transverse-momentum spectrum, is proposed as a direct and penetrating probe of radial flow in heavy-ion collisions. Recent measurements at the LHC…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Jie Wan , Chun-Zheng Wang , Yu-Gang Ma , Qi-Ye Shou

The transverse momentum-differential radial flow observable $v_0(p_\mathrm{T})$, recently proposed and measured by the ATLAS and ALICE collaborations, provides a novel tool to probe radial expansion dynamics in high-energy heavy-ion…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-27 Swati Saha , Ranbir Singh , Bedangadas Mohanty

The dynamical development of expanding Quark-gluon Plasma (QGP) flow is studied in a 3+1D fluid dynamical model with a globally symmetric, initial condition. We minimize fluctuations arising from complex dynamical processes at finite impact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-11-27 D. J. Wang , L. P. Csernai , D. Strottman , Cs. Anderlik , Y. Cheng , D. M. Zhou , Y. L. Yan , X. Cai , B. H. Sa

We introduce a new observable to probe the collective nature of the radial expansion of the quark-gluon plasma. This observable, dubbed $v_{02}(p_T)$, represents the correlation of the spectrum with elliptic flow, in the same way as the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-22 Tribhuban Parida , Rupam Samanta , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

High-energy nuclear collisions create a quark-gluon plasma, whose initial condition and subsequent expansion vary from event to event, impacting the distribution of the event-wise average transverse momentum ($P([p_{\mathrm{T}}])$).…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-03-14 ATLAS Collaboration

Since the quark-gluon plasma, which is unstable due to anisotropic momentum distribution, evolves fast in time, plasma's characteristics have to be studied as initial value problems. The chromodynamic fluctuations and the momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

When two nuclei collide close to the speed of light, a fluid state known as the quark-gluon plasma is formed. Attempts to understand the dynamics of this fluid have generated significant research into dissipative relativistic fluid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-21 Nicki Mullins , Mauricio Hippert , Jorge Noronha , Lorenzo Gavassino

We propose a redefinition of the principal component analysis (PCA) of anisotropic flow that makes it more directly connected to fluctuations of the initial geometry of the system. Then, using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations, we…

Evolution of spatially anisotropic perturbation created in the system formed after Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions has been studied. The microscopic evolution of the fluctuations has been examined within the ambit of Boltzmann Transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-19 Golam Sarwar , Jan-e Alam

The observation of collective flow phenomena in small collision systems challenges our understanding of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation and evolution. This complexity lies in the initial geometries, which are influenced by both nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-23 STAR Collaboration

Anisotropic flow plays a crucial role in establishing the equation of state of the Quark Gluon Plasma. The results at RHIC and LHC have demonstrated that the matter created in heavy-ion collisions behaves as a nearly perfect fluid reflected…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Naghmeh Mohammadi

The heavy quarks constitutes a unique probe of the quark-gluon plasma properties. Both at RHIC and LHC energies a puzzling relation between the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}(p_T)$ and the elliptic flow $v_2(p_T)$ has been observed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Santosh K. Das , Francesco Scardina , Salvatore Plumari , Vincenzo Greco

Non-ideal fluid dynamics with cylindrical symmetry in transverse direction and longitudinal scaling flow is employed to simulate the space-time evolution of the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Azwinndini Muronga , Dirk H. Rischke

The study of correlations between opposite-sign charge pairs and particle-ratio fluctuations can provide a powerful tool to probe the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). It has been suggested that the existence of a QCD phase…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-04-09 Hui Wang

Relativistic heavy ion collisions have reached energies that enable the creation of a novel state of matter termed the quark-gluon plasma. Many observables point to a picture of the medium as rapidly equilibrating and expanding as a nearly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 James L. Nagle , Ian G. Bearden , William A. Zajc

Experimental probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) generated in heavy-ion collisions span a broad range in momentum scale: low transverse momentum (low $p_T$) measurements probe collective dynamics, while high $p_T$ measurements probe the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Lipei Du , P. M. Jacobs

We introduce the $p_T$-differential radial flow $v_0(p_T)$ in the heavy-quark sector. Within an event-by-event Langevin framework, we show that this observable exhibits a strong sensitivity to the heavy quark-bulk interaction. It provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-23 Maria Lucia Sambataro , Salvatore Plumari , Santosh K. Das , Vincenzo Greco
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