1. Eccentricity distributions in nucleus-nucleus collisions
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Jean-Yves Ollitrault, Li Yan, Arthur M. Poskanzer, Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681 (IPHT), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), and European Project: 267258,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2010-AdG_20100224,QCDMAT(2011)
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Distribution (number theory) ,Nuclear Theory ,[PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th] ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Monte Carlo method ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Magnitude (mathematics) ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,medicine ,Statistical physics ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Eccentricity (behavior) ,Nuclear Experiment ,media_common ,Physics ,Spectral density ,Collision ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,Classical mechanics ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,[PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Nucleus ,Parametrization - Abstract
We propose a new parametrization of the distribution of the initial eccentricity in a nucleus-nucleus collision at a fixed centrality, which we name the Elliptic Power distribution. It is a two-parameter distribution, where one of the parameters corresponds to the intrinsic eccentricity, while the other parameter controls the magnitude of eccentricity fluctuations. Unlike the previously used Bessel- Gaussian distribution, which becomes worse for more peripheral collisions, the new Elliptic Power distribution fits several Monte Carlo models of the initial state for all centralities., Revised; Appendix C added. The published version
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- 2014