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With A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) model we investigate the relation between the magnitude, fluctuations and correlations of the initial state spatial anisotropy $\varepsilon_{n}$ and the final state anisotropic flow coefficients $v_{n}$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-03-23 You Zhou , Kai Xiao , Zhao Feng , Feng Liu , Raimond Snellings

The mechanism for generating directed and elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions is investigated and quantified for the SIS18 and SIS100 energy regimes. The observed negative elliptic flow $v_2$, at midrapidity has been explained either via…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-21 Tom Reichert , Jörg Aichelin

Event by event fluctuations of particle multiplicities and their ratios are considered to be sensitive probes to the exotic phenomena in high energy heavy ion collisions like phase transtion or the occurence of critical point. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-22 S. Ahmad , M. Farooq , S. Bashir , H. jahan , N. Ahmad , S. Chattopadhyay

Please note that after these results were reported at Quark Matter 2006 and posted on the preprint server it was found that what is reported here as \textit{elliptic flow fluctuations}, should rather be taken as an upper limit on the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul Sorensen

The elliptic flow $v_2$ and the ratio of the shear viscosity over the entropy density, $\eta/s$, of gluon matter are calculated from the perturbative QCD (pQCD) based parton cascade Boltzmann approach of multiparton scatterings. For Au+Au…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner , Horst Stoecker

A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) model is used to study the elliptic flow fluctuations of identified particles using participant and spectator event planes. The elliptic flow measured using the first order spectator event plane is expected to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-09-08 Niseem Magdy , Xu Sun , Zhenyu Ye , Olga Evdokimov , Roy A. Lacey

This paper presents research that focuses on nonflow contribution subtraction in heavy-ion collisions, using a multiphase transport model (AMPT). Specifically, the study aims to investigate the behavior of charged particle elliptic flow…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-09-26 Zuman Zhang , Sha Li , Ning Yu , Qiao Wu

Recent data from the NA49 experiment on directed and elliptic flow for Pb+Pb reactions at CERN-SPS are compared to calculations with a hadron-string transport model, the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hannah Petersen , Qingfeng Li , Xianglei Zhu , Marcus Bleicher

The harmonic flow coefficients of light nuclei and hypernuclei in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=3$ GeV are investigated using the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics transport model. For the Equation-of-State we employ…

The measurement of the elliptic flow, $v_{2}$, provides a powerful tool for studying the properties of hot and dense medium created in high-energy nuclear collisions. We present the measurement of $v_{2}$ of multi-strange hadrons ($\phi$,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Shusu Shi

We present measurements by STAR of the anisotropic flow coefficients $v_2$ and $v_4$ as a function of particle-type, centrality, transverse momentum and pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at RHIC.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuting Bai

We investigate the elliptic flow ($v_2$) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}} = 3.0$ and 4.5 GeV using both hadronic and partonic transport models, including JAM, SMASH, AMPT-Hadronic Cascade, and AMPT-String Melting. At 3.0 GeV,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-24 Li-Ke Liu , Shusu Shi

The ellipsoidally symmetric extension of Buda-Lund hydrodynamic model is shown here to yield a natural description of the pseudorapidity dependence of the elliptic flow $v_2(\eta)$, as determined recently by the PHOBOS experiment for Au+Au…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Csanad , T. Csorgo , B. Lorstad

We introduce a no-reaction-plane (no-RP) method for extracting directed (\(v_1\)) and elliptic (\(v_2\)) flows in heavy-ion collisions, which eliminates the need for event-plane reconstruction. %by scanning over fixed test angles and using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 E. Dlin , O. Teryaev

We report the elliptic flow ($v_{2}$) of $K_{s}^{0}$, $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, $\phi$, $\Xi^{-}$, and $\overline{\Xi}^{+}$ at mid-rapidity for Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm {NN}}}$ = 200 GeV. The transverse momentum…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-22 Priyanshi Sinha

We report high-statistics measurements of fifth- and sixth-order factorial cumulants and cumulant ratios of (net-)proton multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 7.7$--27 GeV, using data from the STAR experiment…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-23 The STAR Collaboration

High moments of conserved quantities such as net-baryon, net-electric charge, and net-strangeness in heavy-ion collisions are sensitive to fluctuations caused by the QCD critical point (CP). The event-by-event analysis of high moments of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-06 Xin Zhang , Yu Zhang , Xiaofeng Luo , Nu Xu

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

The elliptic flow parameter (component), $v_2$, in the Fourier expansion of event-by-event charged particle multiplicity azimuthal distribution in the momentum space is studied by taking into account the multiplicity fluctuations. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-23 Dai-Mei Zhou , Yun Cheng , Yu-Liang Yan , Bao-Guo Dong , Ben-Hao Sa , Laszlo P. Csernai

A new analytical approach is presented for analysis of two-particle azimuthal correlations in heavy ion collisions at relativistic energies. This approach suggests that elliptic flow measured by experiment has a compound structure, namely,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Okorokov