Review of nonflow estimation methods and uncertainties in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
arXiv:2407.12731 · doi:10.1088/1361-6471/ad903b
Abstract
Collective anisotropic flow, where particles are correlated over the entire event, is a prominent phenomenon in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and is sensitive to the properties of the matter created in those collisions. It is often measured by two- and multi-particle correlations and is therefore contaminated by nonflow, those genuine few-body correlations unrelated to the global event-wise correlations. Many methods have been devised to estimate nonflow contamination with various degrees of successes and difficulties. Here, we review those methods pedagogically, discussing the pros and cons of each method, and give examples of ballpark estimate of nonflow contamination and associated uncertainties in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We hope such a review of the various nonflow estimation methods in a single place would prove helpful to future researches.
Topical review on nonflow, 18 pages including bibliography, 5 figures, 2 tables. v3 changes at referees recommendations: added Section 3 on example data study (Fig.5 and table I), table II to summarize nonflow methods and a set of recommendations in Section 4. v4: published version
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