Fluctuations of the Elliptic Flow

2002/08/31 by Stanislaw Mrowczynski, Edward Shuryak
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-th #hep-ph #nucl-ex

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published as Acta Phys.Polon. B34 (2003) 4241-4256 · Substantially revised version, 10 pages

arxiv created 2003/03/04 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We suggest to perform systematic measurements of the elliptic flow fluctuations which are sensitive to the early stage dynamics of heavy-ion collisions at high-energies. Significant flow fluctuations are shown to be generated due to the formation of topological clusters and development of the filamentation instability. The statistical noise and hydrodynamic fluctuations are also estimated.

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