Quantifying initial state fluctuations in heavy ion collisions
Published
Journal Article
Quantum fluctuations induce interesting structures in the initial state profiles for hydrodynamic calculations of the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma phase of heavy ion collisions. Especially, after the discovery of non-zero odd higher flow coefficients, there has been a lot of theoretical effort to quantify the correlation lengths of energy density fluctuations. A new method to characterize initial state profiles based on a 2D Fourier analysis is presented and an outlook on how this analysis can lead to a better quantitative understanding of the properties of hot and dense nuclear matter is given.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Petersen, H; Coleman-Smith, CE; Wolpert, RL
Published Date
- October 21, 2013
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 6 / 3
Start / End Page
- 797 - 802
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1899-2358
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.5506/APhysPolBSupp.6.797
Citation Source
- Scopus