Tuesday, May 8, 2012

1205.1218 (Sean Gavin et al.)

Flow Fluctuations from Early-Time Correlations in Nuclear Collisions    [PDF]

Sean Gavin, George Moschelli
We propose that flow fluctuations have the same origin as transverse momentum fluctuations. The common source of these fluctuations is the spatially inhomogeneous initial state that drives hydrodynamic flow. Longitudinal correlations from an early Glasma stage followed by hydrodynamic flow quantitatively account for many features of multiplicity and $p_t$ fluctuation data. We develop a framework for studying flow and its fluctuations in this picture. We then compute elliptic and triangular flow fluctuations, and study their connections to the ridge.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1218

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