Seminar in Hadronic Physics

Event-by-event distribution of azimuthal asymmetries in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Gabriel Denicol

McGill University

Recently, it has been realized that fluid-dynamical simulations of heavy ion collisions have to be performed on an event-by-event basis. Therefore, fluid dynamics should not only be able to predict the correct event-averaged flow coefficient, <v_n>, but also their distributions, P(v_n). In this work, we investigate the event-by-event distribution of the initial-state eccentricities e_n, and show how they correlate with the event-by-event distribution of the coefficients v_n. We demonstrate that the distributions of the v_n, and not only their average values, are promising observables to gain information about the transport properties of the hot and dense, strongly interacting matter created in heavy-ion collisions and its initial state.