Effects of subnucleonic fluctuations on the longitudinal dynamics of heavy-ion collisions

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Authors: Oscar Garcia-Montero, Sören Schlichting, Jie Zhu
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Abstract

It is well understood that subnuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions have an important impact on the creation of long-range correlations in the transverse plane. This is also true for the creation of particle correlations along the beam direction, which can be measured in particle detectors, e.g. through longitudinal decorrelation observables. In this work, we study the emergence of long-range rapidity structures in Pb+Pb collisions using a hybrid model connecting the 3D resolved McDipper initial state model to a (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamics framework CLVisc. We include different sources of fluctuations at the (sub-)nucleon level and present the effects of their inclusion on the longitudinal structure of relevant observables, focusing in this proceedings paper on charged hadron multiplicities, baryon stopping, directed flow and flow decorrelation. We find remarkable agreement to the experimental data regarding directed flow and the rapidity resolved charge particle multiplicity.

Fields of Study & Subjects

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

Publication details

Journal / source
EPJ Web of Conferences
Publisher
EDP Sciences
Volume
364
Pages
09009–09009
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN