Published May 2, 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

Effect of longitudinal fluctuation in event-by-event (3+1)D hydrodynamics

  • 1. Nuclear Science Division, MS 70R0319, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
  • 2. Interdisciplinary Center for Theoretical Study and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026 (China)
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Quarks and Lepton Physics (MOE) and Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079 (China)

Description

Hadron spectra and elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are studied in event-by-event (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic simulations with fluctuating initial conditions given by the AMPT Monte Carlo model. Both the coherent soft gluon production from wounded nucleons and incoherent mini-jet production in semi-hard parton scatterings are considered. These partons take part in parton cascade and are assumed to be locally thermalized. They provide the fluctuating initial conditions for hydrodynamic simulations with a Gaussian smearing. Effects of both transverse and longitudinal fluctuations are studied. The initial fluctuations along rapidity direction lead to expanding hot spots in longitudinal direction, which will reduce elliptic flow and the yield of particles at high transverse momentum. The intrinsic correlation introduced in the fluctuating initial conditions is also found to influence the di-hadron correlation of the final hadrons

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2013.02.140

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2013.02.140;
arXiv
arXiv:1211.1570v1;
PII
S0375-9474(13)00266-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
904-905
Journal Page Range
p. 811c-814c
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

Conference

Title
23. international conference on ultrarelativistic nucleus?nucleus collisions
Acronym
Quark Matter 2012
Dates
13-18 Aug 2012
Place
Washington, DC (United States)

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