14 research outputs found
Femtoscopy of the system shape fluctuations in heavy ion collisions
Dipole, triangular, and higher harmonic flow that have an origin in the
initial density fluctuations has gained a lot of attention as they can provide
additional important information about the dynamical properties (e.g.
viscosity) of the system. The fluctuations in the initial geometry should be
also reflected in the detail shape and velocity field of the system at
freeze-out. In this talk I discuss the possibility to measure such fluctuations
by means of identical and non-identical particle interferometry.Comment: 4 pages, Proceedings of Quark Matter 2011 Conference, May 23 - May
28, Annecy, Franc
Study on initial geometry fluctuations via participant plane correlations in heavy ion collisions: part II
Further investigation of the participant plane correlations within a Glauber
model framework is presented, focusing on correlations between three or four
participant planes of different order. A strong correlation is observed for
which is a reflection of the
elliptic shape of the overlap region. The correlation between the corresponding
experimental reaction plane angles can be easily measured. Strong correlations
of similar geometric origin are also observed for
,
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, and
, which are also measurable.
Experimental measurements of the corresponding reaction plane correlators in
heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC may improve our understanding of the
physics underlying the measured higher order flow harmonics.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Influence of tubular initial conditions on two-particle correlations
A unified description of the near-side and away-side structures observed in
two-particle correlations as function of delta eta-delta phi is proposed for
low to moderate transverse momentum. It is based on the combined effect of
tubular initial conditions and hydrodynamical expansion.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to QM201
Higher Flow Harmonics in Heavy Ion Collisions from STAR
We report STAR measurements relating to higher flow harmonics including the
centrality dependence of two- and four-particle cumulants for harmonics 1 to 6.
Two-particle correlation functions vs. \Delta\eta and \Delta\phi are presented
for pT and number correlations. We find the power spectra (Fourier Transforms
of the correlation functions) for central collisions drop quickly for higher
harmonics. The \Delta\eta dependence of v3{2}2 and the pT and centrality
dependence of v2 and v3 are studied. Trends are conistent with expectations
from models including hot-spots in the initial energy density and an expansion
phase. We also present v3 and v2{2}2 - v2{4}2 vs. \surdsNN .Comment: 8 pages. Conference proceedings for Quark Matter 201
Toward the AdS/CFT dual of the "Little Bang"
This (rather subjective) review sums up few years of work devoted to explain
various aspects of high energy heavy ion collisions using the AdS/CFT
correspondence. The central issue of is is formation of the trapped surface
(black hole) phenomenon, seen by a distant observer as the entropy production.
We end up discussing an issue of classical gravitational radiation by an
ultrarelativistic falling body and the so called breaking self-force related to
it.Comment: a review to appear in topical volume of reviews collected by editors,
S.Bass and G.Casaladerrey-Solan
Fluctuations around Bjorken Flow and the onset of turbulent phenomena
We study how fluctuations in fluid dynamic fields can be dissipated or
amplified within the characteristic spatio-temporal structure of a heavy ion
collision. The initial conditions for a fluid dynamic evolution of heavy ion
collisions may contain significant fluctuations in all fluid dynamical fields,
including the velocity field and its vorticity components. We formulate and
analyze the theory of local fluctuations around average fluid fields described
by Bjorken's model. For conditions of laminar flow, when a linearized treatment
of the dynamic evolution applies, we discuss explicitly how fluctuations of
large wave number get dissipated while modes of sufficiently long wave-length
pass almost unattenuated or can even be amplified. In the opposite case of
large Reynold's numbers (which is inverse to viscosity), we establish that
(after suitable coordinate transformations) the dynamics is governed by an
evolution equation of non-relativistic Navier-Stokes type that becomes
essentially two-dimensional at late times. One can then use the theory of
Kolmogorov and Kraichnan for an explicit characterization of turbulent
phenomena in terms of the wave-mode dependence of correlations of fluid dynamic
fields. We note in particular that fluid dynamic correlations introduce
characteristic power-law dependences in two-particle correlation functions.Comment: 40 pages, 5 figures, published versio
A method for studying initial geometry fluctuations via event plane correlations in heavy ion collisions
A method is proposed to measure the relative azimuthal angle distributions
involving two or more event planes of different order in heavy ion collisions
using a Fourier analysis technique. The analysis procedure is demonstrated for
correlations involving two and three event planes (Phi_n, Phi_m and Phi_h). The
Fourier coefficients of these distributions are found to coincide with
previously proposed correlators, such as cos(6Phi_2-6Phi_3) and
cos(Phi_1+2Phi_2-3Phi_3) etc, hence the method provides a natural framework for
studying these correlators at the same time. Using a Monte Carlo Glauber model
to simulate Au+Au collisions with fluctuating initial geometry, we are able to
identify several new two- or three-plane correlators that have sizable
magnitudes and should be measured experimentally.Comment: 10 pages, 14 figure