Friday, March 30, 2012

1112.0884 (Joao Moreira et al.)

Forward-backward rapidity correlations in relativistic heavy ion
collisions : torqued fireball
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Joao Moreira, Piotr Bozek, Wojciech Broniowski
Statistical fluctuations in the transverse distribution of sources in relativistic heavy ion collisions and an asymmetric emission profile associated with the wounded nucleons lead to rapidity dependence of the reaction plane. The size of this effect is estimated for the gold-gold collisions at the highest RHIC energy ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 \mathrm{GeV}$) in the Glauber model using GLISSANDO. The hydrodynamical evolution of the resulting torqued fireball is carried out in 3+1 dimensions considering a perfect fluid. Hadronization is simulated using THERMINATOR including non-flow contribution coming from resonance decays. Some experimental measures that can be used to detect the torque effect are proposed.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0884

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