Publications [#258977] of Robert L. Wolpert
Papers Published
- Petersen, H; Coleman-Smith, CE; Wolpert, RL. "Quantifying initial state fluctuations in heavy ion collisions." Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement 6.3 (October, 2013): 797-802. [doi]
(last updated on 2026/01/16)Abstract:
Quantum fluctuations induce interesting structures in the initial state profiles for hydrodynamic calculations of the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma phase of heavy ion collisions. Especially, after the discovery of non-zero odd higher flow coefficients, there has been a lot of theoretical effort to quantify the correlation lengths of energy density fluctuations. A new method to characterize initial state profiles based on a 2D Fourier analysis is presented and an outlook on how this analysis can lead to a better quantitative understanding of the properties of hot and dense nuclear matter is given.