Elliptic Flow and Its Fluctuations from Transport Models for Au+Au Collisions at <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><menclose notation="radical"><msub><mi>s</mi><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>N</mi></mrow></msub></menclose></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> = 7.7 and 11.5 GeV

Abstract

The elliptic flow v2 is one of the key observables sensitive to the transport properties of the strongly interacting matter formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this work, we report on the calculations of v2 and its fluctuations of charged hadrons produced in Au+Au collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair sNN = 7.7 and 11.5 GeV from several transport models and provide a direct comparison with published results from the STAR experiment. This study motivates further experimental investigations of v2 and its fluctuations with the Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) at the NICA Collider.

Keywords

• heavy-ion collisions
• elliptic flow
• fluctuations
• MPD experiment
• NICA