PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 387 - 10th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (HardProbes2020) - Initial State
Importance of Multiplicity Fluctuations in Entropy Scaling
P. Carzon*, M. Sievert and J. Noronha-Hostler
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Published on: September 01, 2021
Abstract
One of the greatest uncertainties in heavy-ion collisions is the description of the initial state. Different models predict a wide range of initial energy density distributions based on their underlying assumptions. Final flow harmonics are sensitive to these differences in the initial state due to the nearly linear mapping between eccentricities and anisotropic flow harmonics. The Trento code uses a model-agnostic approach by phenomenologically parameterizing the initial state and constraining those parameters from a Bayesian analysis. There the multiplicity fluctuations were determined by a one parameter $\Gamma$ distribution. However, initial-state models arising from the Color-Glass Condensate (CGC) framework lead to an initial energy density which is outside the functional form considered in Trento and its later Bayesian analyses because they rely on log-normal multiplicity fluctuations. We compare $T_{A}T_{B}$ scaling (CGC-like) to $\sqrt{T_{A}T_{B}}$ scaling (preferred from a Trento Bayesian analysis) and find that the $T_A T_B$ form together with log-normal fluctuations is a reasonable candidate to describe the multiplicity fluctuations but leads to larger eccentricities, which would affect the extraction of viscosity in small systems.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.387.0120
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