Continuous description of fluctuating eccentricities

We consider the initial energy density in the transverse plane of a high energy nucleus–nucleus collision as a random field ρ(x), whose probability distribution P[ρ], the only ingredient of the present description, encodes all possible sources of fluctuations. We argue that it is a local Gaussian, w...

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Main Authors: Jean-Paul Blaizot, Wojciech Broniowski, Jean-Yves Ollitrault
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-11-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314006789