Speaker
Stefan Floerchinger
(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DE))
Description
The heavy ion experimental programs at the LHC and RHIC provide evidence that relativistic hydrodynamics can well describe many of the dynamical properties of the hot and dense medium produced there. Moreover, event-by-event fluctuations in the initial configuration play an important role, in particular they determine to a large extent the correlations of particles in azimuthal angle and rapidity. We propose here a new, more differential characterization of fluctuations in the hydrodynamical initial state and discuss the influence of these fluctuations on experimental observables such as particle spectra and harmonic flow coefficients.
Authors
Stefan Floerchinger
(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DE))
Urs Wiedemann
(CERN)
