Collective flow and multiparticle azimuthal correlations

Details Collective flow and multiparticle azimuthal correlations Collective flow and multiparticle azimuthal correlations

2000-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0011013v1

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

6 pages, no figure; Proceedings of the XXX International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2000), Tihany (Hungary), Oc

Scientific paper

The measurement of azimuthal distributions in nucleus-nucleus collisions relies upon the assumption that azimuthal correlations between particles result solely from their correlation with the reaction plane (i.e. flow). We show that at SPS energies, the ansatz is no longer valid, and two-particle correlations due to momentum conservation, final state interactions or resonance decays become of the same order as those arising from flow. This leads us to introduce new methods to analyse collective flow, based on a cumulant expansion, which enable to extract smaller values than those accessible to the standard analysis.

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