Measurement of the distributions of event-by-event flow harmonics in lead-lead collisions at √SNN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2013)183

Abstract:

The distributions of event-by-event harmonic flow coefficients v (n) for n = 2- 4 are measured in = 2.76 TeV Pb + Pb collisions using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The measurements are performed u ...

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Measurement of the distributions of event-by-event flow harmonics in lead-lead collisions at √SNN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Citations

The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Importance of the Bulk Viscosity of QCD in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions.

Heavy Ion Collisions: The Big Picture, and the Big Questions

Relativistic Fluid Dynamics In and Out of Equilibrium -- Ten Years of Progress in Theory and Numerical Simulations of Nuclear Collisions

Observation of Long-Range Elliptic Azimuthal Anisotropies in s =13 and 2.76 TeV pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

References

Geant4—a simulation toolkit

The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

A Multidimensional unfolding method based on Bayes' theorem

Glauber Modeling in High Energy Nuclear Collisions

Methods for analyzing anisotropic flow in relativistic nuclear collisions

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