Hydrodynamic modeling of 3He–Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV

• Main Authors: Piotr Bożek, Wojciech Broniowski
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2015-07-01
• Series: Physics Letters B
• Subjects: Ultrarelativistic 3He–Au collisions; Event-by-event fluctuations; Collective flow; Femtoscopy
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315004128

Collective flow and femtoscopy in ultrarelativistic 3He–Au collisions are investigated within the 3+1-dimensional (3+1D) viscous event-by-event hydrodynamics. We evaluate elliptic and triangular flow coefficients as functions of the transverse momentum. We find the typical long-range ridge structures in the two-particle correlations in the relative azimuth and pseudorapidity, in the pseudorapidity directions of both Au and 3He. We also make predictions for the pionic interferometric radii, which decrease with the transverse momentum of the pion pair. All features found hint on collectivity of the dynamics of the system formed in 3He–Au collisions, with hydrodynamics leading to quantitative agreement with the up-to-now released data.