Elliptic Flow in Central Collisions of Deformed Nuclei

Understand

Non-trivial geometrical effects in relativistic central collisions of deformed nuclei are studied using a simple version of optical Glauber model.

• For very small impact parameters large centrality and eccentricity fluctuations are observed.
• In very high multiplicity collisions of oblate nuclei (e.g.
• Au and Cu) significant fraction of events with elliptic flow strength v_2 dependent on oblateness beta_2 is predicted.