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Elliptic flow in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions results from the hydrodynamic response to the spatial anisotropy of the initial density profile. A long-standing problem in the interpretation of flow data is that uncertainties in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-09 Li Yan , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Arthur M. Poskanzer

The elliptic azimuthal anisotropy coefficient ($v_{2}$) of the identified particles at midrapidity ($|\eta|<0.8$) was investigated in p--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=$ 5.02 TeV using a multi-phase transport model (AMPT). The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-01 Siyu Tang , Liang Zheng , Xiaoming Zhang , Renzhuo Wan

The anisotropy of the azimuthal distributions of charged particles produced in PbPb collisions with a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV is studied with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The elliptic anisotropy parameter defined…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-03-20 CMS Collaboration

We point out that the intrinsic relationship between space and momentum in quantum physics through the uncertainty principle has potential implications for momentum anisotropy in heavy-ion collisions. Using a harmonic oscillator potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-04 Denes Molnar , Chris. H. Greene , Fuqiang Wang

It is commonly believed that azimuthal anisotropies in relativistic heavy ion collisions are generated by hydrodynamic evolution of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma. Here we use transport models to study how azimuthal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Zi-Wei Lin , Liang He , Terrence Edmonds , Feng Liu , Denes Molnar , Fuqiang Wang

We summarize some recent ideas relating to anisotropic particle production in high-energy collisions. Anisotropic gluon distributions lead to anisotropies of the single-particle azimuthal distribution and hence to disconnected contributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-16 Adrian Dumitru , Andre V. Giannini , Vladimir Skokov

It is shown that the excellent scaling of the elliptic flow found for all centralities, species and energies from RHIC to the LHC for $p_{T}$ less than the saturation momentum is a consequence of the energy lost by a parton interacting with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Carlota Andrés , Mikhail Braun , Carlos Pajares

In collisions between heavy nuclei, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, hydrodynamic models have successfully related measured azimuthal momentum anisotropies to the transverse shape of the collision region. For an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Christian Bierlich , Peter Christiansen , Gösta Gustafson , Leif Lönnblad , Robin Törnkvist , Korinna Zapp

The elliptic flow for $Z\le2$ particles in heavy ion collisions at energies from several tens to several hundreds MeV per nucleon is investigated by means of transport model,i.e. a new version of the Improved Quantum Molecular Dynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Yingxun Zhang , Zhuxia Li

We consider general model with factorization between macroscopic flow and matter decay distribution. We show universality of $p_t^2$ behavior of elliptic flow at small $p_t$ for identified final particles in the symmetric nucleus collision.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Abramovsky , A. V. Popov

Collective anisotropic particle flow, a general phenomenon present in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, can be separated from direct particle-particle correlations of different physics origin by virtue of its specific azimuthal pattern. We…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Bielcikova , S. Esumi , K. Filimonov , S. Voloshin , J. P. Wurm

Azimuthal anisotropies of high-$p_T$ particles produced in heavy-ion collisions are understood as an effect of a geometrical selection bias. Particles oriented in the direction in which the QCD medium formed in these collisions is shorter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Daniel Pablos , Konrad Tywoniuk

The elliptic flow in collisions of neutron-rich heavy-ion systems at intermediate energies emerges as an observable sensitive to the strength of the symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities. First results obtained by comparing ratios…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-02-06 W. Trautmann , H. H. Wolter

The observation of large azimuthal anisotropies $v_n$ in the particle spectra of proton-proton (pp) and proton-nucleus (pA) collisions challenges fluid dynamic interpretations of $v_n$, as it remains unclear how small collision systems can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-25 Aleksi Kurkela , Urs Achim Wiedemann , Bin Wu

In high energy heavy ion collisions and interacting cold atom systems, large elliptic flow anisotropies have been observed. For the large opacity ($\rho\sigma L\sim 10^{3}$) of the latter hydrodynamics is a natural consequence, but for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Yuliang Sun , Qingfeng Li , Fuqiang Wang

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

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

We simulate ultra-central collisions of prolate uranium-uranium nuclei at intermediate energies using the isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model to investigate the impact of momentum anisotropy on spatial geometric effects. By…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-28 Xiao-Hua Fan , Zu-Xing Yang , Peng-Hui Chen , Zhi-Pan Li , Wei Zuo , Masaaki Kimura , Shunji Nishimura

In parallel with advances in microscale imaging techniques, the fields of biology and materials science have focused on precisely extracting particle properties based on their diffusion behavior. Although the majority of real-world…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Kaito Takanami , Daisuke Taniguchi , Sawako Enoki , Masafumi Kuroda , Yasushi Okada , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

We compute the leading-order collisional energy loss of a heavy quark propagating through a quark-gluon plasma in which the quark and gluon distributions are anisotropic in momentum space. Following the calculation outlined for QED in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul Romatschke , Michael Strickland
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