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Many simulations of relativistic heavy ion collisions involve the switching from relativistic hydrodynamics to kinetic particle transport. This switching entails the sampling of particles from the distribution of energy, momentum and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Dmytro Oliinychenko , Shuzhe Shi , Volker Koch

Recently it has become apparent that event-by-event fluctuations in the initial state of hydrodynamical modelling of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are crucial in order to understand the full centrality dependence of the elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Thorsten Renk , Hannu Holopainen , Jussi Auvinen , Kari J. Eskola

In the first part of the talk we discuss the role of the two-body nucleon-nucleon correlations on signatures of the heavy-ion collisions which are a priori expected to be sensitive to these effects. We find that while the fluctuations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Wojciech Broniowski , Maciej Rybczynski , Lukasz Obara , Mikolaj Chojnacki

We examine the space-time structure of the particle-emitting sources with fluctuating initial conditions in smoothed particle hydrodynamics. The two-pion correlation functions of single events for the sources exhibit event-by-event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-08-18 Yan-Yu Ren , Wei-Ning Zhang , Jian-Li Liu

Bose-Einstein correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions are examined in a general model containing the essential features of hydrodynamical, cascade as well as other models commonly employed for describing the particle freeze-out.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Heiselberg , A. P. Vischer

In heavy-ion and hadronic collisions, indications of thermalization are detected in the yields of produced hadrons: these observations call for a detailed study of the hadronization processes. Novel observables are required to discriminate…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-12-15 Mario Ciacco

The QCD critical point can be found in heavy ion collision experiments via the non-monotonic behavior of many fluctuation observables as a function of the collision energy. The event-by-event fluctuations of various particle multiplicities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Christiana Athanasiou , Krishna Rajagopal , Misha Stephanov

These proceedings consist of a brief overview of the current understanding of collective behavior in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In particular, recent progress in understanding the implications of event-by-event fluctuations have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-11-14 Matthew Luzum

The event-by-event fluctuations in heavy ion collisions carry information about the thermodynamic properties of the hadronic system at the time of freeze-out. By studying these fluctuations as a function of varying control parameters, such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Krishna Rajagopal

Relativistic heavy ion collisions, which are performed at large experimental programs such as Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider's (RHIC) STAR experiment and the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) experiments, can create an extremely hot and dense…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-16 Caio Alves Garcia Prado

We discuss opportunities that may arise from subjecting high-multiplicity events in relativistic heavy ion collisions to an analysis similar to the one used in cosmology for the study of fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background…

We investigate the possibility of selecting heavy ion collision events with certain features in the initial state ("event engineering"). Anisotropic flow measurements in heavy ion reactions have confirmed the almost ideal fluid dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-13 Hannah Petersen , Berndt Muller

Improved constraints on current model parameters in a heavy-ion collision model are established using the latest measurements from three distinct collision systems. Various observables are utilized from Au--Au collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-05 Maxim Virta , Jasper Parkkila , Dong Jo Kim

We show that non-conventional statistical effects (due to the presence of long range forces, memory effects, correlations and fluctuations) can be very relevant in the interpretation of the experimental observables in relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 W. M. Alberico , A. Lavagno , P. Quarati

We briefly describe two statistical hadronization models, based respectively on the presence and absence of light quark chemical equilibrium, used to analyze particle yields in heavy ion collisions. We then try to distinguish between these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Giorgio Torrieri

Large spatial density fluctuations in high-energy heavy-ion collisions can come from many sources: initial transverse density fluctuations, non-central collisions, phase transitions, surface tension, and fragmentations. The common presence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Cheuk-Yin Wong , Wei-Ning Zhang

Large density fluctuations of conserved charges have been proposed as a promising signature for exploring the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions. These fluctuations are expected to exhibit a fractal or scale-invariant behavior,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Rui Wang , Chengrui Qiu , Chuan-Shen Hu , Zhiming Li , Yuanfang Wu

The phase diagram of the strongly interacting matter is the main research subject for different current and future experiments in high-energy physics. System size and energy scan programs aim to find a possible critical point. One of such…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-15 Andrey Seryakov

Event-by-event fluctuations in the initial conditions for a hydrodynamical description of heavy-ion collisions are characterized. We propose a Bessel-Fourier decomposition with respect to the azimuthal angle, the radius in the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-30 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

The event-by-event charge fluctuation measurements are proposed to provide the signature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. Measure of dynamical charge fluctuations is expected to carry information of initial fractional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Bhanu Sharma , P. K. Sahu