Investigation of the linear and mode-coupled flow harmonics in Au+Au collisions at sNN = 200 GeV

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135728

Investigation of the linear and mode-coupled flow harmonics in Au+Au collisions at s_NN = 200 GeV

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

14 Scopus citations

Abstract

Flow harmonics (v_n) of the Fourier expansion for the azimuthal distributions of hadrons are commonly employed to quantify the azimuthal anisotropy of particle production relative to the collision symmetry planes. While lower order Fourier coefficients (v₂ and v₃) are more directly related to the corresponding eccentricities of the initial state, the higher-order flow harmonics (v_n>3) can be induced by a mode-coupled response to the lower-order anisotropies, in addition to a linear response to the same-order anisotropies. These higher-order flow harmonics and their linear and mode-coupled contributions can be used to more precisely constrain the initial conditions and the transport properties of the medium in theoretical models. The multiparticle azimuthal cumulant method is used to measure the linear and mode-coupled contributions in the higher-order anisotropic flow, the mode-coupled response coefficients, and the correlations of the event plane angles for charged particles as functions of centrality and transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy s_NN= 200 GeV. The results are compared to similar LHC measurements as well as to several viscous hydrodynamic calculations with varying initial conditions.

Original language	English
Article number	135728
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	809
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135728
State	Published - Oct 10 2020

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s)

Funding

We thank the RHIC Operations Group and RCF at BNL, the NERSC Center at LBNL, and the Open Science Grid consortium for providing resources and support. This work was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Science, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Chinese Ministry of Education, the Higher Education Sprout Project by Ministry of Education at NCKU, the National Research Foundation of Korea, Czech Science Foundation and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, New National Excellency Programme of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, the National Science Centre of Poland, the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, RosAtom of Russia and German Bundesministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung and Technologie (BMBF), Helmholtz Association, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

Funders	Funder number
Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities
National Research Foundation of Korea
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Grantová Agentura České Republiky
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
Ministry for Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Ministry of Education at NCKU
RosAtom of Russia and German Bundesministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung and Technologie
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology
Ministarstvo Obrazovanja, Znanosti i Sporta
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Office of Science Programs
Riley Children's Foundation
Institute for Nuclear Physics
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
RHIC Operations Group
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	19H05598
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Keywords

Collectivity
Correlation
Shear viscosity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Access to Document

10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135728

Cite this

@article{b924d789b8b849a5a43c224b73146d99,

title = "Investigation of the linear and mode-coupled flow harmonics in Au+Au collisions at sNN = 200 GeV",

abstract = "Flow harmonics (vn) of the Fourier expansion for the azimuthal distributions of hadrons are commonly employed to quantify the azimuthal anisotropy of particle production relative to the collision symmetry planes. While lower order Fourier coefficients (v2 and v3) are more directly related to the corresponding eccentricities of the initial state, the higher-order flow harmonics (vn>3) can be induced by a mode-coupled response to the lower-order anisotropies, in addition to a linear response to the same-order anisotropies. These higher-order flow harmonics and their linear and mode-coupled contributions can be used to more precisely constrain the initial conditions and the transport properties of the medium in theoretical models. The multiparticle azimuthal cumulant method is used to measure the linear and mode-coupled contributions in the higher-order anisotropic flow, the mode-coupled response coefficients, and the correlations of the event plane angles for charged particles as functions of centrality and transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy sNN= 200 GeV. The results are compared to similar LHC measurements as well as to several viscous hydrodynamic calculations with varying initial conditions.",

keywords = "Collectivity, Correlation, Shear viscosity",

author = "J. Adam and L. Adamczyk and Adams, \{J. R.\} and Adkins, \{J. K.\} and G. Agakishiev and Aggarwal, \{M. M.\} and Z. Ahammed and I. Alekseev and Anderson, \{D. M.\} and A. Aparin and Aschenauer, \{E. C.\} and Ashraf, \{M. U.\} and Atetalla, \{F. G.\} and A. Attri and Averichev, \{G. S.\} and V. Bairathi and K. Barish and A. Behera and R. Bellwied and A. Bhasin and J. Bielcik and J. Bielcikova and Bland, \{L. C.\} and Bordyuzhin, \{I. G.\} and Brandenburg, \{J. D.\} and Brandin, \{A. V.\} and J. Butterworth and H. Caines and \{Calder{\'o}n de la Barca S{\'a}nchez\}, M. and D. Cebra and I. Chakaberia and P. Chaloupka and Chan, \{B. K.\} and Chang, \{F. H.\} and Z. Chang and N. Chankova-Bunzarova and A. Chatterjee and D. Chen and Chen, \{J. H.\} and X. Chen and Z. Chen and J. Cheng and M. Cherney and M. Chevalier and S. Choudhury and W. Christie and X. Chu and Crawford, \{H. J.\} and M. Csan{\'a}d and R. Fatemi",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Author(s)",

year = "2020",

month = oct,

day = "10",

doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135728",

language = "English",

volume = "809",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Investigation of the linear and mode-coupled flow harmonics in Au+Au collisions at sNN = 200 GeV

AU - Adam, J.

AU - Adamczyk, L.

AU - Adams, J. R.

AU - Adkins, J. K.

AU - Agakishiev, G.

AU - Aggarwal, M. M.

AU - Ahammed, Z.

AU - Alekseev, I.

AU - Anderson, D. M.

AU - Aparin, A.

AU - Aschenauer, E. C.

AU - Ashraf, M. U.

AU - Atetalla, F. G.

AU - Attri, A.

AU - Averichev, G. S.

AU - Bairathi, V.

AU - Barish, K.

AU - Behera, A.

AU - Bellwied, R.

AU - Bhasin, A.

AU - Bielcik, J.

AU - Bielcikova, J.

AU - Bland, L. C.

AU - Bordyuzhin, I. G.

AU - Brandenburg, J. D.

AU - Brandin, A. V.

AU - Butterworth, J.

AU - Caines, H.

AU - Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, M.

AU - Cebra, D.

AU - Chakaberia, I.

AU - Chaloupka, P.

AU - Chan, B. K.

AU - Chang, F. H.

AU - Chang, Z.

AU - Chankova-Bunzarova, N.

AU - Chatterjee, A.

AU - Chen, D.

AU - Chen, J. H.

AU - Chen, X.

AU - Chen, Z.

AU - Cheng, J.

AU - Cherney, M.

AU - Chevalier, M.

AU - Choudhury, S.

AU - Christie, W.

AU - Chu, X.

AU - Crawford, H. J.

AU - Csanád, M.

AU - Fatemi, R.

PY - 2020/10/10

Y1 - 2020/10/10

N2 - Flow harmonics (vn) of the Fourier expansion for the azimuthal distributions of hadrons are commonly employed to quantify the azimuthal anisotropy of particle production relative to the collision symmetry planes. While lower order Fourier coefficients (v2 and v3) are more directly related to the corresponding eccentricities of the initial state, the higher-order flow harmonics (vn>3) can be induced by a mode-coupled response to the lower-order anisotropies, in addition to a linear response to the same-order anisotropies. These higher-order flow harmonics and their linear and mode-coupled contributions can be used to more precisely constrain the initial conditions and the transport properties of the medium in theoretical models. The multiparticle azimuthal cumulant method is used to measure the linear and mode-coupled contributions in the higher-order anisotropic flow, the mode-coupled response coefficients, and the correlations of the event plane angles for charged particles as functions of centrality and transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy sNN= 200 GeV. The results are compared to similar LHC measurements as well as to several viscous hydrodynamic calculations with varying initial conditions.

AB - Flow harmonics (vn) of the Fourier expansion for the azimuthal distributions of hadrons are commonly employed to quantify the azimuthal anisotropy of particle production relative to the collision symmetry planes. While lower order Fourier coefficients (v2 and v3) are more directly related to the corresponding eccentricities of the initial state, the higher-order flow harmonics (vn>3) can be induced by a mode-coupled response to the lower-order anisotropies, in addition to a linear response to the same-order anisotropies. These higher-order flow harmonics and their linear and mode-coupled contributions can be used to more precisely constrain the initial conditions and the transport properties of the medium in theoretical models. The multiparticle azimuthal cumulant method is used to measure the linear and mode-coupled contributions in the higher-order anisotropic flow, the mode-coupled response coefficients, and the correlations of the event plane angles for charged particles as functions of centrality and transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy sNN= 200 GeV. The results are compared to similar LHC measurements as well as to several viscous hydrodynamic calculations with varying initial conditions.

KW - Collectivity

KW - Correlation

KW - Shear viscosity

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85090403270

UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85090403270&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135728

DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135728

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85090403270

SN - 0370-2693

VL - 809

JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

M1 - 135728

ER -