Eccentricity fluctuation effects on elliptic flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions
- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)
- Akita International University, Yuwa, Akita-city 010-1292 (Japan)
We study effects of eccentricity fluctuations on the elliptic flow coefficient v{sub 2} at midrapidity in both Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN})=200 GeV by using a hybrid model that combines ideal hydrodynamics for space-time evolution of the quark gluon plasma phase and a hadronic transport model for the hadronic matter. For initial conditions in hydrodynamic simulations, both the Glauber model and the color glass condensate model are employed to demonstrate the effect of initial eccentricity fluctuations originating from the nucleon position inside a colliding nucleus. The effect of eccentricity fluctuations is modest in semicentral Au+Au collisions, but significantly enhances v{sub 2} in Cu+Cu collisions.
- OSTI ID:
- 21289937
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 79, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.79.064904; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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