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We propose to use the hadron number fluctuations in the limited momentum regions to study the evolution of initial flows in high energy nuclear collisions. In this method by a proper preparation of a collision sample the projectile and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marek Gazdzicki , Mark Gorenstein

We extend the impact parameter dependent Glasma model (IP-Glasma) to three dimensions using explicit small x evolution of the two incoming nuclear gluon distributions. We compute rapidity distributions of produced gluons and the early time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-20 Bjoern Schenke , Soeren Schlichting

Event-by-event hydrodynamics, with fluctuating initial conditions, has shown to nicely reproduce several features of experimentally observed quantities in high-energy nuclear collisions. Here we discuss how it may help to understand, in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Yogiro Hama , Rone Peterson G. Andrade , Frederique Grassi , Wei-Liang Qian

Sub-nuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions impact not only transverse long-range correlations of small systems, but also the creation of longitudinal structures, seen in particle detectors as longitudinal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Sören Schlichting , Jie Zhu

Event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied within the HSD and UrQMD transport models. The scaled variances of negative, positive, and all charged hadrons in Pb+Pb at 158 AGeV are analyzed in…

A framework combining Yang-Mills dynamics of the pre-equilibrium glasma with relativistic viscous hydrodynamic evolution of the quark-gluon plasma and hadron gas phases is presented. Event-by-event fluctuations of nucleon positions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Bjoern Schenke , Prithwish Tribedy , Raju Venugopalan

Collective flow in collisions between Lead nuclei at LHC are influenced by random initial state fluctuations, especially for odd harmonics. Here we extend fluctuation studies to longitudinal fluctuations, which may have significant effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-30 Yun Cheng , Yu-Liang Yan , Dai-Mei Zhou , Xu Cai , Ben-Hao Sa , Laszlo P. Csernai

An analysis method is proposed to study the forward-backward (FB) multiplicity fluctuation in high-energy nuclear collisions, built on the earlier work of Bzdak and Teaney. The method allows the decomposition of the centrality dependence of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Jiangyong Jia , Sooraj Radhakrishnan , Mingliang Zhou

The number of particles detected in a nucleus-nucleus collision strongly depends on the impact parameter of the collision. Therefore, multiplicity fluctuations, as well as rapidity correlations of multiplicities, are dominated by impact…

An investigation of the critical behavior of strongly interacting QCD matter has been performed by analyzing fluctuation observables on event-by-event (ebe) basis measured in high-energy collision experiments. The fluctuation analysis is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-10-11 Ashwini Kumar , Gauri Devi , B. K. Singh , Bushra Ali , Shakeel Ahmad

We study the sensitivity of the higher-order moments of produced particle multiplicity distributions to the chemical freeze-out parameters in relativistic heavy ion collisions using the Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model. We compare the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Paolo Alba , Rene Bellwied , Marcus Bluhm , Valentina Mantovani Sarti , Marlene Nahrgang , Claudia Ratti

In this paper, we investigate the multiplicity fluctuations of charged particles observed in high-energy nuclear collisions and relate them to the size of hadronizing systems which happen during such processes. We use the average…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-30 A. Bazgir , V. Z. Reyna Ortiz , M. Rybczynski , U. Shah , Z. Wlodarczyk

Strongly intensive measures $\Delta$ and $\Sigma$ are used to study event-by-event fluctuations of hadron multiplicities in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The effects of resonance decays are investigated within statistical model and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Viktor V. Begun , Mark I. Gorenstein , Katarzyna Grebieszkow

We use the wounded nucleon model to study the forward-backward multiplicity fluctuations measured by the PHOBOS Collaboration in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV. The enhancement of forward-backward fluctuations in Au+Au collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 Adam Bzdak , Krzysztof Wozniak

We suggest that the fluctuations of strange hadron multiplicity could be sensitive to the equation of state and microscopic structure of strongly interacting matter created at the early stage of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. They…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. I. Gorenstein , M. Gazdzicki , O. S. Zozulya

We have extended the Interacting Gluon Model (IGM) to calculate diffractive mass spectra generated in hadronic collisions. We show that it is possible to treat both diffractive and non-diffractive events on the same footing, in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 F. O. Duraes , F. S. Navarra , G. Wilk

The dynamical charge fluctuations have been studied in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions by using hadronic model simulations, such as UrQMD and HIJING. The evolution of fluctuations has been calculated at different time steps during…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-03 Bhanu Sharma , Madan M. Aggarwal , Nihar Ranjan Sahoo , Tapan K. Nayak

Rapidity decorrelation in high energy heavy-ion collisions is one of the hot topics in understanding longitudinal dynamics of the quark gluon plasma (QGP). In this study we employ an integrated dynamical model with full three dimensional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Azumi Sakai , Koichi Murase , Tetsufumi Hirano

A survey is given on the applications of hydrodynamic model of nucleus-nucleus collisons, focusing especially on i) the resolution of hydrodynamic equations for arbitrary configurations, by using the smoothed-particle hydrodynamic approach;…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Y. Hama , T. Kodama , O. Socolowski

We develop methods to deal with non-dynamical contributions to event-by-event fluctuation measurements of net-particle numbers in relativistic nuclear collisions. These contributions arise from impact parameter fluctuations and from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-09 P. Braun-Munzinger , A. Rustamov , J. Stachel