skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Harmonic decomposition of three-particle azimuthal correlations at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Journal Article · · Physical Review C
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; more »; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; « less

Here, we present measurements of three-particle correlations for various harmonics in Au+Au collisions at energies ranging from √sNN=7.7 to 200 GeV using the STAR detector. The quantity < cos(mΦ1+nΦ2–(m+n)Φ3) >, with Φ being the azimuthal angles of the particles is evaluated as a function of √sNN, collision centrality, transverse momentum, pT, pseudorapidity difference, Δη, and harmonics (m and n). These data provide detailed information on global event properties such as the three-dimensional structure of the initial overlap region, the expansion dynamics of the matter produced in the collisions, and the transport properties of the medium. A strong dependence on Δη is observed for most harmonic combinations, which is consistent with breaking of longitudinal boost invariance. An interesting energy dependence is observed when one of the harmonics m,n, or m+n is equal to two, for which the correlators are dominated by the two-particle correlations relative to the second-harmonic event plane. These measurements can be used to constrain models of heavy-ion collisions over a wide range of temperature and baryon chemical potential.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Contributing Organization:
STAR Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1480981
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1474781
Report Number(s):
BNL-209343-2018-JAAM; PRVCAN
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Vol. 98, Issue 3; ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 29 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (63)

Eliminating experimental bias in anisotropic-flow measurements of high-energy nuclear collisions journal April 2013
Observation of charge-dependent azimuthal correlations and possible local strong parity violation in heavy-ion collisions journal May 2010
Particle-Type Dependence of Azimuthal Anisotropy and Nuclear Modification of Particle Production in A u + A u Collisions at s N N = 200 G e V journal February 2004
Quantum chromodynamics at high temperature journal February 1979
Collective Phenomena in Non-Central Nuclear Collisions book January 2010
Collective flow of QCD matter: a historical introduction journal November 2014
Nonlinearities in the harmonic spectrum of heavy ion collisions with ideal and viscous hydrodynamics journal October 2012
Topology Studies of Hydrodynamics Using Two-Particle Correlation Analysis journal December 2009
Elliptic Flow in A u + A u Collisions at s NN = 130 GeV journal January 2001
Azimuthal anisotropy in Au+Au collisions at s NN = 200 GeV journal July 2005
Long range rapidity correlations and jet production in high energy nuclear collisions journal December 2009
High Transverse Momentum Triggered Correlations over a Large Pseudorapidity Acceptance in Au + Au Collisions at s N N = 200 GeV journal February 2010
Fluctuations of charge separation perpendicular to the event plane and local parity violation in s NN = 200 GeV Au + Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider journal December 2013
Superhorizon fluctuations and acoustic oscillations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions journal June 2008
Measurement of event-plane correlations in s NN = 2.76 TeV lead-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector journal August 2014
Higher Harmonic Anisotropic Flow Measurements of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at s N N = 2.76 TeV journal July 2011
Event-plane correlations and hydrodynamic simulations of heavy ion collisions journal August 2014
Implications of space–momentum correlations and geometric fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions journal August 2010
Dihadron azimuthal correlations in Au+Au collisions at s NN = 200 GeV journal July 2008
Importance of the Bulk Viscosity of QCD in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions journal September 2015
Superdense Matter: Neutrons or Asymptotically Free Quarks? journal May 1975
Moving Forward to Constrain the Shear Viscosity of QCD Matter journal May 2016
Azimuthal correlations from transverse momentum conservation and possible local parity violation journal January 2011
Parameterization of deformed nuclei for Glauber modeling in relativistic heavy ion collisions journal October 2015
The order of the quantum chromodynamics transition predicted by the standard model of particle physics journal October 2006
Minijet deformation and charge-independent angular correlations on momentum subspace ( η , ϕ ) in Au-Au collisions at s NN = 130 GeV journal June 2006
Central collisions between heavy nuclei at extremely high energies: The fragmentation region journal December 1980
A method for studying initial geometry fluctuations via event plane correlations in heavy ion collisions journal July 2013
Long-range and short-range dihadron angular correlations in central PbPb collisions at $ \sqrt {{{s_{\text{NN}}}}} $ = 2.76 TeV journal July 2011
STAR detector overview
  • Ackermann, K. H.; Adams, N.; Adler, C.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 499, Issue 2-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01960-5
journal March 2003
Decorrelation of anisotropic flow along the longitudinal direction journal April 2016
Elliptic Flow: a Study of Space-Momentum Correlations in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions book February 2010
Highly relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions: The central rapidity region journal January 1983
Systematic measurements of identified particle spectra in pp , d + Au , and Au + Au collisions at the STAR detector journal March 2009
Beam-Energy Dependence of Charge Separation along the Magnetic Field in Au + Au Collisions at RHIC journal July 2014
Parity violation in hot QCD: Why it can happen, and how to look for it journal February 2006
Effects of momentum conservation on the analysis of anisotropic flow journal June 2002
Azimuthal Charged-Particle Correlations and Possible Local Strong Parity Violation journal December 2009
Harmonic decomposition of two particle angular correlations in Pb–Pb collisions at <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:msqrt><mml:msub><mml:mi>s</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">NN</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>2.76</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext>TeV</mml:mtext></mml:math> journal February 2012
Event-by-event fluctuations in a perturbative QCD + saturation + hydrodynamics model: Determining QCD matter shear viscosity in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions journal February 2016
The rise and fall of the ridge in heavy ion collisions journal November 2011
Measurements of Higher Order Flow Harmonics in Au + Au Collisions at s N N = 200 GeV journal December 2011
Generic framework for anisotropic flow analyses with multiparticle azimuthal correlations journal June 2014
Transition to hot quark matter in relativistic heavy-ion collision journal October 1978
Possibility of Spontaneous Parity Violation in Hot QCD journal July 1998
Glauber Modeling in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions journal November 2007
Third harmonic flow of charged particles in Au + Au collisions at s NN = 200  GeV journal July 2013
Parity violation in hot QCD: How to detect it journal November 2004
Hydrodynamic event-plane correlations in Pb+Pb collisions at <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>2.76</mml:mn><mml:mspace width="0.2em"/><mml:mi>A</mml:mi><mml:mtext> TeV</mml:mtext></mml:math> journal October 2012
Event-plane correlators journal August 2013
Beam Energy Dependence of the Third Harmonic of Azimuthal Correlations in Au + Au Collisions at RHIC journal March 2016
Is there still any T c mystery in lattice QCD? Results with physical masses in the continuum limit III journal September 2010
Torqued fireballs in relativistic heavy-ion collisions journal March 2011
Dynamical initial-state model for relativistic heavy-ion collisions journal February 2018
Δ ϕ Δ η correlations in central Au+Au collisions at s NN = 200 GeV journal March 2007
Elliptic flow from two- and four-particle correlations in Au+Au collisions at s NN = 130 GeV journal September 2002
Forward-backward eccentricity and participant-plane angle fluctuations and their influences on longitudinal dynamics of collective flow journal September 2014
FEMTOSCOPY IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLISIONS: Two Decades of Progress journal December 2005
QCD Phase Transition with Chiral Quarks and Physical Quark Masses journal August 2014
Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy for charged particle production in s N N = 2.76 TeV lead-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector journal July 2012
Triangularity and dipole asymmetry in relativistic heavy ion collisions journal June 2011
Flow analysis with cumulants: Direct calculations journal April 2011
Two particle rapidity, transverse momentum, and azimuthal correlations in relativistic nuclear collisions and transverse radial expansion journal March 2005


Figures / Tables (13)


Similar Records

Beam Energy Dependence of the Third Harmonic of Azimuthal Correlations in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC
Journal Article · Fri Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review Letters · OSTI ID:1480981

Three-particle correlations in a multiphase transport model
Journal Article · Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physics Letters B · OSTI ID:1480981

Beam-energy dependence of charge balance functions from Au + Au collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Journal Article · Tue Aug 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review C · OSTI ID:1480981