Abstract
Recently PHOBOS has focused on the study of fluctuations and correlations in particle production in heavy-ion collisions at the highest energies delivered by the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). In this report, we present results on event-by-event elliptic flow fluctuations in Au + Au collisions at √sNN =200 GeV. A data-driven method was used to estimate the dominant contribution from non-flow correlations. Over the broad range of collision centralities, the observed large elliptic flow fluctuations are in agreement with the fluctuations in the initial source eccentricity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1081-1086 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Acta Physica Polonica B |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Published - Apr 2009 |