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Title: Event-shape fluctuations and flow correlations in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Journal Article · · Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
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  1. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States). Physics Dept.

I review recent measurements of a large set of flow observables associated with event-shape fluctuations and collective expansion in heavy ion collisions. First, these flow observables are classified and experiment methods are introduced. The experimental results for each type of observables are then presented and compared to theoretical calculations. A coherent picture of initial condition and collective flow based on linear and non-linear hydrodynamic responses is derived, which qualitatively describe most experimental results. I discuss new types of fluctuation measurements that can further our understanding of the event-shape fluctuations and collective expansion dynamics.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-98CH10886; PHY-1305037
OSTI ID:
1174102
Report Number(s):
BNL-107411-2015-JA; BNL-107411-2015-JAAM; KB0201021
Journal Information:
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 41, Issue 12; ISSN 0954-3899
Publisher:
IOP PublishingCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 48 works
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The Importance of Correlations and Fluctuations on the Initial Source Eccentricity in High-Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions text January 2007
Flow analysis with cumulants: direct calculations text January 2010
Determining initial-state fluctuations from flow measurements in heavy-ion collisions text January 2011
Counting hot/cold spots in quark-gluon plasma text January 2011
Mapping the hydrodynamic response to the initial geometry in heavy-ion collisions text January 2011
Centrality dependence of dihadron correlations and azimuthal anisotropy harmonics in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV text January 2012
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Fluctuating Glasma initial conditions and flow in heavy ion collisions text January 2012
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A method for studying initial geometry fluctuations via event plane correlations in heavy ion collisions text January 2012
Effects of initial flow velocity fluctuation in event-by-event (3+1)D hydrodynamics text January 2012
Non linearities in the harmonic spectrum of heavy ion collisions with ideal and viscous hydrodynamics text January 2012
Hydrodynamic event-plane correlations in Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt(s)=2.76ATeV text January 2012
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Event-by-event anisotropic flow in heavy-ion collisions from combined Yang-Mills and viscous fluid dynamics text January 2012
Initial state fluctuations and higher harmonic flow in heavy-ion collisions text January 2012
Extracting the shear viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma from flow in ultra-central heavy-ion collisions text January 2012
Anisotropic flow measured from multi-particle azimuthal correlations for Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV by ALICE at the LHC text January 2012
Event shape engineering with ALICE text January 2012
Collective flow and viscosity in relativistic heavy-ion collisions text January 2013
Hydrodynamic Modeling of Heavy-Ion Collisions text January 2013
Fluctuating flow angles and anisotropic flow measurements text January 2013
Measurement of the distributions of event-by-event flow harmonics in lead--lead collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC text January 2013
Event-plane correlators text January 2013
Constraining models of initial conditions with elliptic and triangular flow data text January 2013
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Eccentricity distributions in nucleus-nucleus collisions text January 2014
Collective Expansion at the LHC: selected ALICE anisotropic flow measurements text January 2014
Observation of a Strongly-Interacting Degenerate Fermi Gas of Atoms text January 2002
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Flow analysis from multiparticle azimuthal correlations text January 2001
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