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Effects of sub-nucleonic fluctuations on the longitudinal structure of heavy-ion collisions

2025/01/24 by Oscar Garcia-Montero, Sören Schlichting, Garcia-Montero, Oscar +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Theoretical and Computational Physics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2501.14872

openalex publication_date 2025/01/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Sub-nuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions impact not only transverse long-range correlations of small systems, but also the creation of longitudinal structures, seen in particle detectors as longitudinal decorrelation observables. In this work, we study the emergence of long-range rapidity correlations in nuclear collisions based on the 3D resolved McDIPPER initial state model, and for the first time, connect it to experimental observables using the 3+1D viscous hydrodynamics framework CLVisc. We include different sources of fluctuations at the nucleon and subnucleon level and study the effects of these additional fluctuation sources on the longitudinal structure of relevant observables, such as the flow decorrelations and directed flow.

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