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View SchemaElliptic Flow Analysis at RHIC: Fluctuations vs. Non-Flow Effects
| Authors | Xianglei Zhu, Marcus Bleicher, Horst Stoecker |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0509081 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0509081 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevC.72.064911 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. C72 (2005) 064911 |
Abstract
The cumulant method is applied to study elliptic flow ($v_2$) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$AGeV, with the UrQMD model. In this approach, the true event plane is known and both the non-flow effects and event-by-event spatial ($\epsilon$) and $v_2$ fluctuations exist. Qualitatively, the hierarchy of $v_2$'s from two, four and six-particle cumulants is consistent with the STAR data, however, the magnitude of $v_2$ in the UrQMD model is only 60% of the data. We find that the four and six-particle cumulants are good measures of the real elliptic flow over a wide range of centralities except for the most central and very peripheral events. There the cumulant method is affected by the $v_2$ fluctuations. In mid-central collisions, the four and six-particle cumulants are shown to give a good estimation of the true differential $v_2$, especially at large transverse momentum, where the two-particle cumulant method is heavily affected by the non-flow effects.
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevC.72.064911",
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