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Radial flow can be directly extracted from the azimuthal distribution of mean transverse rapidity. We apply the event-plane method and the two-particle correlation method to estimate the anisotropic Fourier coefficient of the azimuthal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-13 Peng Yang , Lin Li , Yu Zhou , Zhiming Li , Mingmei Xu , Yeyin Zhao , Yuanfang Wu

The effects of anisotropic transverse collective flow on the HBT correlation function is studied. There exist three different physics contributions related to flow which affect the correlation function: anisotropic source shape, anisotropic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. A. Voloshin , W. E. Cleland

The measurement of azimuthal distributions in nucleus-nucleus collisions relies upon the assumption that azimuthal correlations between particles result solely from their correlation with the reaction plane (i.e. flow). We show that at SPS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Borghini , Phuong Mai Dinh , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We suggest the azimuthal distribution of mean transverse (radial) rapidity of the final state particles as a more direct measure of the transverse motion of the source than the standard azimuthal multiplicity distribution. Using a sample…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Lin Li , Na Li , Yuanfang Wu

We investigate the azimuthal anisotropy $v_2$ of particle production in nucleus-nucleus collisions in the maximum entropy approach. This necessitates two new phenomenological input parameters $\delta$ and $\lambda_2$ compared with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Hans J. Pirner , Klaus Reygers , Boris Z. Kopeliovich

Results on high transverse momentum charged particle emission with respect to the reaction plane are presented for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$= 200 GeV. Two- and four-particle correlations results are presented as well as a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 STAR Collaboration

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

We show that flow anisotropies in relativistic heavy-ion collisions can be analyzed using a certain technique of shape analysis of excursion sets recently proposed by us for CMBR fluctuations to investigate anisotropic expansion history of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Ranjita K. Mohapatra , P. S. Saumia , Ajit M. Srivastava

The pseudorapidity dependence of elliptic ($v_2$), triangular ($v_3$), and quadrangular ($v_4$) flow coefficients of charged particles measured in Pb-Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02$ TeV…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-04-15 ALICE Collaboration

Correlation measurements imply that anisotropic flow in nuclear collisions includes a novel triangular component along with the more familiar elliptic-flow contribution. Triangular flow has been attributed to event-wise fluctuations in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Sean Gavin , George Moschelli

Event-by-event fluctuations in the amplitudes of flow harmonics offer a novel approach to probing the initial-state characteristics in heavy-ion collisions. In this study, we conduct a systematic investigation of correlations among various…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Zaining Wang , Jinhui Chen , Jiangyong Jia , Yu-Gang Ma , Chunjian Zhang

We analyze azimuthal anisotropy in heavy ion collisions related to the reaction plane in terms of standard reggeon approach and find that it is nonzero even when the final state interaction is switched off. This effect can be interpreted in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 K. G. Boreskov , A. B. Kaidalov , O. V. Kancheli

We have investigated the performance of anisotropic flows $\langle v_n^2 \rangle$, transverse momentum fluctuations $\langle \delta p_T^2 \rangle $, and their correlations $\langle v_n^2 \delta p_T \rangle$ in central collisions at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-23 Hai-Cheng Wang , Song-Jie Li , Lu-Meng Liu , Jun Xu , Zhong-Zhou Ren

This paper investigates the relationship between initial spatial anisotropy and final state momentum anisotropy in heavy ion collisions through the analysis of elliptic flow ($v_2$) as a function of transverse momentum ($p_T$). Building…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-10 Mira Varma , Oliver Baker

Recent results of the anisotropic flow measurements by the ALICE Collaboration at the LHC are reviewed. Directed, elliptic, triangular, and quadrangular flow are presented differentially vs. transverse momentum, pseudo-rapidity, and the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Ilya Selyuzhenkov

Minijets and jets are produced in large numbers in nuclear collisions at TeV energies, so that there are many of them in a single fireball. They deposit non-negligible amount of momentum and energy into the hydrodynamically expanding bulk…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Boris Tomasik , Martin Schulc

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

The recent results on anisotropic flow in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions along with recent methodical developments and achievements in the understanding of the phenomena, are reviewed. The emphasis is given to the elliptic flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Voloshin

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the radial flow of the fireball, usually characterized by transverse momentum spectra of final-state particles, encodes essential information about the hot and dense nuclear matter created in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Jie Zhu , Xiang-Yu Wu , Guang-You Qin

Peculiar phenomena have been observed in analyses of anisotropic flow ($v_n$) fluctuations in ultracentral nucleus-nucleus collisions: The fourth-order cumulant of the elliptic flow ($v_2$) distribution changes sign. In addition, the ATLAS…