Glauber Monte Carlo predictions for ultra-relativistic collisions with ${}^{16}\mathrm{O}$

Abstract

We explore Glauber Monte Carlo predictions for the planned ultra-relativistic ${}^{16}\mathrm{O}$+${}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ and p+${}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ collisions, as well as for collisions of ${}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ on heavy targets. In particular, we present specific collective flow measures which are approximately independent on the hydrodynamic response of the system, such as the ratios of eccentricities obtained from cumulants with different numbers of particles, or correlations of ellipticity and triangularity described by the normalized symmetric cumulants. We use the state-of-the-art correlated nuclear distributions for ${}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ and compare the results to the uncorrelated case, finding moderate effects for the most central collisions. We also consider the wounded quark model, which turns out to yield similar results to the wounded nucleon model for the considered measures. The purpose of our study is to prepare some ground for the upcoming experimental proposals, as well as to provide input for possible more detailed dynamical studies with hydrodynamics or transport codes.

Small additions and improvements. Matches Physical Review C accepted version

References in corpus (9)

• Glauber Modeling in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
• Alternative ansatz to wounded nucleon and binary collision scaling in high-energy nuclear collisions
• Measurement of the proton-air cross-section at $\sqrt{s}=57$ TeV with the Pierre Auger Observatory
• Elliptic and triangular flow in p+Pb and peripheral Pb+Pb collisions from parton scatterings
• Report on Tests and Measurements of Hadronic Interaction Properties with Air Showers
• Measurement of flow harmonics with multi-particle cumulants in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Collective flow in ultrarelativistic ${}^3$He-Au collisions
• Alpha clusters and collective flow in ultra-relativistic carbon - heavy nucleus collisions
• Hydrodynamic modeling of 3He-Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV