Multiparticle azimuthal correlations for extracting event-by-event elliptic and triangular flow in Au + Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV
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We present measurements of elliptic and triangular azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles detected at forward rapidity 1<|η|<3 in Au + Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV, as a function of centrality. The multiparticle cumulant technique is used to obtain the elliptic flow coefficients v2{2},v2{4},v2{6}, and v2{8}, and triangular flow coefficients v3{2} and v3{4}. Using the small-variance limit, we estimate the mean and variance of the event-by-event v2 distribution from v2{2} and v2{4}. In a complementary analysis, we also use a folding procedure to study the distributions of v2 and v3 directly, extracting both the mean and variance. Implications for initial geometrical fluctuations and their translation into the final-state momentum distributions are discussed.
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This article is published as Adare, A., C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, M. Alfred, N. Apadula, H. Asano et al. "Multiparticle azimuthal correlations for extracting event-by-event elliptic and triangular flow in Au+ Au collisions at s N N= 200 GeV." Physical Review C 99, no. 2 (2019): 024903. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.99.024903. Posted with permission.