Multiparticle azimuthal correlations for extracting event-by-event elliptic and triangular flow in Au plus Au collisions at √<i>S<sub>NN</sub></i>=200 GeV


Adare A., Aidala C., Ajitanand N. N., Akiba Y., Alfred M., Apadula N., ...Daha Fazla

PHYSICAL REVIEW C, cilt.99, sa.2, 2019 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 99 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevc.99.024903
  • Dergi Adı: PHYSICAL REVIEW C
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

We present measurements of elliptic and triangular azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles detected at forward rapidity 1 < vertical bar eta vertical bar < 3 in Au + Au collisions at root S-NN = 200 GeV, as a function of centrality. The multiparticle cumulant technique is used to obtain the elliptic flow coefficients v(2){2}, v(2){4}, v(2){6}, and v(2){8}, and triangular flow coefficients v(3){2} and v(3){4}. Using the small-variance limit, we estimate the mean and variance of the event-by-event v 2 distribution from v(2){2} and v(2){4}. In a complementary analysis, we also use a folding procedure to study the distributions of v(2) and v(3) directly, extracting both the mean and variance. Implications for initial geometrical fluctuations and their translation into the final-state momentum distributions are discussed.