Forward-backward flow correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Details Forward-backward flow correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Forward-backward flow correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

2011-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/1110.2140v2

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

4 pages, 5 figures, presented by WB at XLI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2011), 26-30 September 2011

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We discuss the torque effect in the initial fireball formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, manifesting itself, on the event-by-event basis, in a relative angle between the principal axes of the transverse momentum distributions in the forward and backward rapidity regions. The torque follows from two natural features: 1) the sources of particles (e.g. wounded nucleons) emit predominantly in their forward hemispheres, and 2) there exist fluctuations in the transverse distribution of sources from the two colliding nuclei. On the average, the standard event-by-event deviation of the relative torque angle is about 20 degrees for the central and 10 degrees for the mid-peripheral collisions. The hydrodynamic expansion of a torqued fireball leads to a torqued collective flow of the fluid, which, in turn, yields torqued principal axes of the transverse-momentumdistributions at different rapidities. We discuss experimental measures based on cumulants involving particles in different rapidity regions, which allow for a quantitative extraction of the effect from the experimental data. We estimate the non-flow contributions from resonance decays with the help of THERMINATOR.

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