English
Related papers

Related papers: Event by Event fluctuations and Inclusive Distribu…

200 papers

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

Harmonic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is observed in a broad range of rapidities, and the flow at different rapidities is correlated. However, fluctuations lead to a small decorrelation of the harmonic flow magnitudes and flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

Recent LHC results concerning full jet-quenching in PbPb collisions have been presented in terms of a jet asymmetry parameter, measuring the imbalance between the transverse momenta of leading and subleading jets. We examine the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Matteo Cacciari , Gavin P. Salam , Gregory Soyez

The fluctuation-dissipation theorem requires the presence of thermal noise in viscous fluids. The time and length scales of heavy ion collisions are small enough so that the thermal noise can have a measurable effect on observables. Thermal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-16 C. Young , J. I. Kapusta , C. Gale , S. Jeon , B. Schenke

We study fluctuations of particle number in the presence of critical point by utilizing molecular dynamics simulations of the classical Lennard-Jones fluid in a periodic box. The numerical solution of the $N$-body problem naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-27 Volodymyr A. Kuznietsov , Oleh Savchuk , Mark I. Gorenstein , Volker Koch , Volodymyr Vovchenko

Fluctuation and correlation observables are often measured using multi-particle correlation methods and therefore mutually probe the origins of genuine correlations present in multi-particle distribution functions. We investigate the common…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Sean Gavin , George Moschelli

We investigate the measurement of the distribution of away-side jet $p_T$ as a way to probe the energy loss mechanism in heavy ion collisions, and constrain the properties of the medium created in heavy ion collisions. We define an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giorgio Torrieri , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Vasile Topor Pop

Understanding fluctuations of observables across stochastic trajectories is essential for various fields of research, from quantum thermal machines to biological motors. We introduce a framework to analyze the statistics of counting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-17 Guilherme Fiusa , Pedro E. Harunari , Abhaya S. Hegde , Gabriel T. Landi

The interpretation of the new effect of the superfluidity in reactions with small number of particles is discussed in a simple model where the exact solution is accessible. It is find that the fluctuations of observable with the gauge angle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Guillaume Scamps , Yukio Hashimoto

We develop a framework for event-by-event ideal hydrodynamics to study the differential elliptic flow which is measured at different centralities in Au+Au collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Fluctuating initial energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-22 Hannu Holopainen , Harri Niemi , Kari J. Eskola

The sensitivity of flow harmonics from cumulants on the event-by-event flow distribution $p(v_n)$ is investigated using a simple central moment expansion approach. For narrow distribution whose width is much smaller than the mean…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-08-26 Jiangyong Jia , Sooraj Krishnann

For non-equilibrium systems of interacting particles and for interacting diffusions in d dimensions, a novel fluctuation relation is derived. The theorem establishes a quantitative relation between the probabilities of observing two current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-07 Carlos Pérez-Espigares , Frank Redig , Cristian Giardinà

Requirements for correlation measurements in high--multiplicity events are discussed. Attention is focussed on detection of so--called hot spots, two--particle rapidity correlations, two--particle momentum correlations (for quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 David Seibert

Goal of these proceedings is to introduce a method based on event weighting in particle physics experiments. Weighting means that events are not just counted as integer numbers but are assigned a weight factor according to their importance…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-03-11 Joerg Pretz

It is shown using Monte Carlo simulation that for low multiplicity events the single-event factorial moments are saturated by the statistical fluctuations. The diverse of the event-space moments $C_{p,q}$ of single-event moments with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Liu Lianshou , Fu Jinghua , Wu Yuanfang

We discuss properties and applications of factorial cumulants of various particle numbers and for their mixed channels measured by the event-by-event analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. After defining the factorial cumulants for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-30 Masakiyo Kitazawa , Xiaofeng Luo

Higher order correlation measurements involve multiple event averages which must run over unequal events to avoid statistical bias. We derive correction formulas for small event samples, where the bias is largest, and utilize the results to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-22 H. C. Eggers , P. Lipa

We generalize and extend the recently proposed method to account for contributions of system size (or volume/participant) fluctuations to the experimentally measured moments of particle multiplicity distributions. We find that in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-07 Romain Holzmann , Volker Koch , Anar Rustamov , Joachim Stroth

We study the statistical fluctuations (such as the variance) of causal set quantities, with particular focus on the causal set action. To facilitate calculating such fluctuations, we develop tools to account for correlations between causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Heidar Moradi , Yasaman K. Yazdi , Miguel Zilhão

The concepts of variability and uncertainty, both epistemic and alleatory, came from experience and coexist with different connotations. Therefore this article attempts to express their relation by analytic means firstly setting sights on…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2013-01-15 Kalman Ziha