Nonflow "factorization" and a novel method to disentangle anisotropic flow and nonflow
Nuclear Experiment
2012-07-18 v2
Abstract
Presently flow and nonflow cannot be separated experimentally. Using Pythia simulations of p+p collisions we show that nonflow approximately factorizes. This fact may be used to disentangle flow and nonflow in heavy ion data by performing a two-component factorization fit to Fourier coefficients of two-particle correlations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1110.4809,
title = {Nonflow "factorization" and a novel method to disentangle anisotropic flow and nonflow},
author = {Daniel Kikola and Li Yi and ShinIchi Esumi and Fuqiang Wang and Wei Xie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.4809},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures. Included discussion of the higher harmonic anisotropic flow and two-particle azimuthal correlations measured in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC