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Angular power spectrum of heavy ion collisions

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Particles produced in heavy ion collisions carry information about anisotropies present already in the early state of the system and play a crucial role in understanding the Quark Gluon Plasma… Click to show full abstract

Particles produced in heavy ion collisions carry information about anisotropies present already in the early state of the system and play a crucial role in understanding the Quark Gluon Plasma and its evolution. We explore the angular power spectrum of particle multiplicities in such heavy ion collisions to extract fluctuations in particle multiplicities on the surface a sphere. Results are presented for Pb-Pb data at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76\mathrm{TeV}$, extracted from the ALICE open data portal. We find that odd modes of the power spectrum display a power-law behavior with corresponding index $\beta$, which is found to be close to unity. We also demonstrate that the angular power spectrum allows us to extract accurately the flow coefficients of non-central collisions.

Keywords: angular power; heavy ion; power; ion collisions; power spectrum

Journal Title: Physical Review C
Year Published: 2019

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