GLISSANDO: GLauber Initial-State Simulation AND mOre

Abstract

GLISSANDO is a Glauber Monte-Carlo generator for early-stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, written in c++ and interfaced to Root. Several models are implemented: the wounded-nucleon model, the binary collisions model, the mixed model, and the model with hot-spots. Subtleties of the distribution of nucleon in the nucleus are discussed. The original geometric distribution of sources in the transverse plane can be superimposed with a statistical distribution simulating the dispersion in the generated transverse energy in each individual collision. The program generates inter alia the fixed axes (standard) and variable-axes (participant) two-dimensional profiles of the density of sources in the transverse plane and their Fourier components. These profiles can be used in further analyses of physical phenomena, such as the the jet quenching, event-by-event hydrodynamics, or analysis of the elliptic flow and its fluctuations. Characteristics of the event (multiplicities, eccentricities, Fourier coefficients, etc.) are evaluated and stored in a file for further off-line studies. A number of scripts is provided for that purpose. Supplied variants of the code can also be used for the proton-nucleus and deuteron-nucleus collisions.

Updated ver. 1.6 of the code available at http://www.pu.kielce.pl/homepages/mryb/GLISSANDO/

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• Glauber Modeling in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
• Elliptic flow in the Gaussian model of eccentricity fluctuations
• Fluctuating initial conditions in heavy-ion collisions from the Glauber approach

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• Consistent hydrodynamic description of one- and two-particle observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC
• Hydrodynamics and perfect fluids: uniform description of soft observables in Au+Au collisions at RHIC
• Soft-hadronic observables for relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC
• Glauber Monte-Carlo predictions for LHC