Effects of saturation and fluctuating hotspots for flow observables in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
| Autor: | Hirvonen, Henry, Kuha, Mikko, Auvinen, Jussi, Eskola, Kari J., Kanakubo, Yuuka, Niemi, Harri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | We investigate the effects of saturation dynamics on midrapidity flow observables by adding fluctuating hotspots into the novel Monte Carlo EKRT (MC-EKRT) event generator for high-energy nuclear collisions. We demonstrate that the intensity of the saturation effects significantly affects the ratio between the flow coefficients $v_3$ and $v_2$ at the LHC. Adding a hotspot substructure to the nucleons enhances the saturation effects and improves the agreement with the measured data. We show that the collision-energy dependence of the flow coefficients obtained using the MC-EKRT initial states with hotspots is improved in comparison with the earlier event-by-event EKRT model. In addition, we present the results for the charged hadron multiplicity distribution in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC, and show that the minijet-multiplicity originating fluctuations of the saturation scale included in MC-EKRT, as well as the presence of hotspots, are necessary for describing the measured large-multiplicity tail in the distribution. Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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