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Fluctuating Initial Conditions and Anisotropic Flows
In this work we study the connection between anisotropic flows and lumpy
initial conditions for Au+Au collisions at 200GeV. We present comparisons
between anisotropic flow coefficients and eccentricities up to sixth order, and
between initial condition reference angles and azimuthal particle distribution
angles. We also present a toy model to justify the lack of connection between
flow coefficients and eccentricities for individual events.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Anisotropic flow in event-by-event ideal hydrodynamic simulations of sqrt(s_{NN})=200 GeV Au+Au collisions
We calculate flow observables with the NeXSPheRIO ideal hydrodynamic model
and make the first comparison to the complete set of mid-rapidity flow
measurements made by the PHENIX collaboration in top energy Au+Au collisions. A
simultaneous calculation of v_2, v_3, v_4, and the first event-by-event
calculation of quadrangular flow defined with respect to the v_2 event plane
(v_4{Psi_2}) gives good agreement with measured values, including the
dependence on both transverse momentum and centrality. This provides
confirmation that the collision system is indeed well described as a
quark-gluon plasma with an extremely small viscosity, and that correlations are
dominantly generated from collective effects. In addition we present a
prediction for v_5.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Revised version. Corrections in eq.(7) and Fig.
Linear and cubic response to the initial eccentricity in heavy-ion collisions
We study the relation between elliptic flow, and the initial
eccentricity, , in heavy-ion collisions, using hydrodynamic
simulations. Significant deviations from linear eccentricity scaling are seen
in more peripheral collisions. We identify the mechanism responsible for these
deviations as a cubic response, which we argue is a generic property of the
hydrodynamic response to the initial density profile. The cubic response
increases elliptic flow fluctuations, thereby improving agreement of initial
condition models with experimental data.Comment: 7 pages. v2: bugs corrected in Figs.1,2,4,5, text unchange
Directed flow at mid-rapidity in event-by-event hydrodynamics
Fluctuations in the initial geometry of a nucleus-nucleus collision have been
recently shown to result in a new type of directed flow (v_1) that, unlike the
usual directed flow, is also present at midrapidity. We compute this new v_1
versus transverse momentum and centrality for Au-Au collisions at RHIC using
the hydrodynamic code NeXSPheRIO. We find that the event plane of v_1 is
correlated with the angle of the initial dipole of the distribution, as
predicted, though with a large dispersion. It is uncorrelated with the reaction
plane. Our results are in excellent agreement with results inferred from STAR
correlation data.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures; Figure data files included with source; Version
accepted for publication (minor changes
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