Comparison of Methods for Elliptic Flow Measurements at NICA Energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 4-11 GeV

Abstract

The goal of the Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) experiment at NICA collider is to explore the QCD phase diagram of strongly interacting matter produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=4-11$ GeV. The performance of MPD detector for elliptic flow measurements of charged hadrons is studied with Monte-Carlo simulations using collisions of Au+Au ions employing UrQMD, SMASH, and AMPT heavy-ion event generators. Different methods for flow measurements: event plane and direct cumulants are used to investigate the contribution of non-flow correlations and flow fluctuations.

5 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the Conference "The XXIV International Scientific Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists (AYSS-2020) " (Dubna, 9-13 November 2020), AIP Conference Proceedings. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2012.06763

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• Flow analysis with cumulants: direct calculations