Quantifying Initial State Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2013 · Acta Physica Polonica. Series B, Proceedings Supplement

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5506/APhysPolBSupp.6.797· OSTI ID:1407201

Petersen, H. ^[1]; Coleman-Smith, C. E. ^[2]; Wolpert, R. L. ^[2]

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1. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)

Quantum fluctuations induce interesting structures in the initial state profiles for hydrodynamic calculations of the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma phase of heavy ion collisions. Especially, after the discovery of non-zero odd higher flow coefficients, there has been a lot of theoretical effort to quantify the correlation lengths of energy density fluctuations. A new method to characterize initial state profiles based on a 2D Fourier analysis is presented and an outlook on how this analysis can lead to a better quantitative understanding of the properties of hot and dense nuclear matter is given.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1407201
• Journal Information: Acta Physica Polonica. Series B, Proceedings Supplement, Vol. 6, Issue 3; Conference: Workshop "Excited QCD 2013", Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), 3-9 Feb 2013; ISSN 1899-2358
• Publisher: Jagiellonian University
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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