A method for determining event-by-event elliptic flow fluctuations based on the first-order event plane in heavy-ion collisions

Gang Wang, Declan Keane, Aihong Tang +1

A new method is presented for determining event-by-event fluctuations of elliptic flow, $v_2$, using first-order event planes. By studying the event-by-event distributions of $v_2$…