Flow analysis from multiparticle azimuthal correlations
Abstract
We present a new method for analyzing directed and elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions. Unlike standard methods, it separates the contribution of flow to azimuthal correlations from contributions due to other effects. The separation relies on a cumulant expansion of multiparticle azimuthal correlations, and includes corrections for detector inefficiencies. This new method allows the measurement of the flow of identified particles in narrow phase-space regions, and can be used in every regime, from intermediate to ultrarelativistic energies.
- Publication:
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Physical Review C
- Pub Date:
- November 2001
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:nucl-th/0105040
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvC..64e4901B
- Keywords:
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- 25.75.Ld;
- 25.75.Gz;
- Collective flow;
- Particle correlations;
- Nuclear Theory;
- Nuclear Experiment
- E-Print:
- 31 pages, revtex. Published version (references added)