2012

Effects of initial flow velocity fluctuation in event-by-event (3+1)D hydrodynamics

Pang, Longgang, Wang, Qun, Wang, Xin-Nian

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Hadron spectra and elliptic flow in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are studied within a (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic model with fluctuating initial conditions given by the AMPT Monte Carlo model.

  • Results from event-by-event simulations are compared with experimental data at both RHIC and LHC energies.
  • Fluctuations in the initial energy density come from not only the number of coherent soft interactions of overlapping nucleons but also incoherent semi-hard parton scatterings in each binary nucleon collision.
  • Mini-jets from semi-hard parton scatterings are assumed to be locally thermalized through a Gaussian smearing and give rise to non-vanishing initial local flow velocities.

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