Collective phenomena in non-central nuclear collisions

2008/09/17 by Sergei A. Voloshin, S. A. Voloshin, Arthur M. Poskanzer +5 · 73 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Collision #Computer science #Energy (signal processing) #FOS: Physical sciences #Field (mathematics) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Interpretation (philosophy) #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Nuclear physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0809.2949

published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · Review paper, 56 pages, as accepted for publication

openalex publication_date 2008/09/17 · arxiv created 2008/10/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Recent developments in the field of anisotropic flow in nuclear collision are reviewed. The results from the top AGS energy to the top RHIC energy are discussed with emphasis on techniques, interpretation, and uncertainties in the measurements.

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• Impact of QCD Energy Evolution on Observables in Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Efficiency correction of particle-averaged quantities
• Charm quark evolution in the early stages of heavy-ion collisions
• Characterizing radial flow fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at top RHIC and LHC energies
• Study of anisotropic flow of heavy hadrons in Au + Au collisions at √s_NN = 200 GeV using HYDJET++ framework
• Measurement of the longitudinal flow-plane decorrelation using multi-plane cumulants in √s__NN = 200 GeV Au+Au, Ru+Ru, and Zr+Zr collisions
• Left-right splitting of elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions: TRENTo-3D initialization and CLVisc hydrodynamic simulations
• Probing Nuclear Geometry through Multi-Particle Azimuthal Correlations and Rapidity-Even Dipolar Flow in ¹⁶O+¹⁶O Collisions
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• A practical methodology for Λ global polarization extraction in fixed-target experiments
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• Collective Flow and Viscosity in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Anisotropic Flow at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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