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We show that the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) is an effective tool for mitigating non-flow effects in flow analysis. To this end, one constructs two toy models that simulate non-flow contributions corresponding to particle decay and…

The azimuthal correlations between local flow planes at different (pseudo)rapidities ($\eta$) may reveal important details of the initial nuclear matter density distributions in heavy-ion collisions. Extensive experimental measurements of a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-09 Zhiwan Xu , Xiatong Wu , Caleb Sword , Gang Wang , Sergei A. Voloshin , Huan Zhong Huang

Anisotropic flow measurements in heavy-ion collisions provide important information on the properties of hot and dense matter. These measurements are based on analysis of azimuthal correlations and might be biased by contributions from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-10-18 Ante Bilandzic , Raimond Snellings , Sergei Voloshin

This paper formalizes the use of integral and differential cumulants for measurements of multi-particle event-by-event transverse momentum fluctuations, rapidity fluctuations, as well as net charge fluctuations. This enables the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-12 Claude Pruneau , Victor Gonzalez , Ana Marin , Sumit Basu

The Multi-particle technique has been used to unravel the nature of the long-range collectivity in small collision systems. A large three-particle mixed-harmonic correlation signal was recently observed by the ATLAS Collaboration, but the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-04 Chunjian Zhang , Jiangyong Jia , Jun Xu

Two particle correlations have been used extensively to study hydrodynamic flow patterns in heavy-ion collisions. In small collision systems, such as $p$$+$$p$ and $p$$+$$A$, where particle multiplicities are much smaller than in $A$$+$$A$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-13 S. H. Lim , Q. Hu , R. Belmont , K. K. Hill , J. L. Nagle , D. V. Perepelitsa

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

We present a general method for taking into account correlations due to momentum conservation in the analysis of anisotropic flow, either by using the two-particle correlation method or the standard flow vector method. In the latter, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Borghini , P. M. Dinh , J. -Y. Ollitrault , A. M. Poskanzer , S. A. Voloshin

We consider various methods of flow analysis in heavy ion collisions and compare experimental data on corresponding observables to the predictions of our saturation model proposed earlier. We demonstrate that, due to the nature of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuri V. Kovchegov , Kirill L. Tuchin

We discuss how the different estimates of elliptic flow are influenced by flow fluctuations and nonflow effects. It is explained why the event-plane method yields estimates between the two-particle correlation methods and the multiparticle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-18 Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Arthur M. Poskanzer , Sergei A. Voloshin

Presently flow and nonflow cannot be separated experimentally. Using Pythia simulations of p+p collisions we show that nonflow approximately factorizes. This fact may be used to disentangle flow and nonflow in heavy ion data by performing a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-07-18 Daniel Kikola , Li Yi , ShinIchi Esumi , Fuqiang Wang , Wei Xie

Collective anisotropic flow, where particles are correlated over the entire event, is a prominent phenomenon in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and is sensitive to the properties of the matter created in those collisions. It is often…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-12-19 Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang Wang

Recently CMS Collaboration measured mixed-harmonic four-particle azimuthal correlations, known as symmetric cumulants SC(n,m), in pp and pPb collisions, and interpreted the non-zero SC(n,m) as evidence for long-range collectivity in these…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-01-03 Peng Huo , Katarina Gajdosova , Jiangyong Jia , You Zhou

Suspensions of swimming particles exhibit complex collective behaviors driven by hydrodynamic interactions, showing persistent large-scale flows and long-range correlations. While heavily studied, it remains unclear how such structures…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 Bryce Palmer , Scott Weady , Michael O'Brien , Blakesley Burkhart , Michael J. Shelley

We derive analytical forms for nonflow contributions from cluster correlation to the measurement of two-particle elliptic flow (v2{2}). We estimate nonflow contribution from rho->pi+pi decays and find it is negative but not a major…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-18 Quan Wang , Fuqiang Wang

A recent mode coupling theory of higher-order correlation functions is tested on a simple hard-sphere fluid system at intermediate densities. Multi-point and multi-time correlation functions of the densities of conserved variables are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ramses van Zon , Jeremy Schofield

This paper proposes a new non-oscillatory {\em energy-splitting} conservative algorithm for computing multi-fluid flows in the Eulerian framework. In comparison with existing multi-fluid algorithms in literatures, it is shown that the mass…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-04 Xin Lei , Jiequan Li

We discuss how the different estimates of elliptic flow are influenced by flow fluctuations and nonflow effects. It is explained why the event-plane method yields estimates between the two-particle correlation methods and the multiparticle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-08-18 Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Arthur M. Poskanzer , Sergei A. Voloshin

We analytically examine fluctuations of vorticity excited by an external random force in two-dimensional fluid. We develop the perturbation theory enabling one to calculate nonlinear corrections to correlation functions of the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-28 I. V. Kolokolov , V. V. Lebedev , V. M. Parfenyev

An efficient technique to simulate turbulent particle-laden flow at high mass loadings within the four-way coupled simulation regime is presented. The technique implements large eddy simulation, discrete phase simulation, a deterministic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-13 Derrick O. Njobuenwu , Michael Fairweather
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