Constraints from v fluctuations for the initial state geometry of heavy-ion collisions 2 Thorsten Renk and Harri Niemi Department of Physics, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 University of Jyva¨skyla¨, Finland and Helsinki Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Theabilitytoaccuratelycomputetheseriesofcoefficientsvn characterizingthemomentumspace anisotropiesofparticleproductioninultrarelativistic heavyioncollisions asafunctionofcentrality is widely regarded as a triumph of fluid dynamics as description of the bulk matter evolution. A key ingredient to fluid dynamical modeling is however the initial spatial distribution of matter as createdbyayetnotcompletelyunderstoodequilibrationprocess. Ameasurementdirectlysensitive to this initial state geometry is therefore of high value for constraining models of pre-equilibrium 4 dynamics. Recently, it has been shown that such a measurement is indeed possible in terms of the 1 eventbyeventprobabilitydistributionof thenormalized vn distributionasafunctionof centrality, 0 which is to high accuracy independent on the details of the subsequent fluid dynamical evolution 2 and hence directly reflects the primary distribution of spatial eccentricities. We present a study of n thisobservableusingavarietyofGlauber-basedmodelsandarguethattheexperimentaldataplace a very tight constraints on the initial distribution of matter and rule out all simple Glauber-based J models. 9 PACSnumbers: 25.75.-q,25.75.Gz ] h t I. INTRODUCTION pactparameter[20, 21]. The event-by-eventfluctuations - l ofε ’sthentranslateintotheevent-by-eventfluctuations c n u Itisnowcommonlyagreedthatultrarelativisticheavy- of vn’s. Fluid dynamical calculations have established n that the relation hv i=C ε , where the angular brack- ion (A-A) collisions create a transient state of collective n n n [ ets hi denote the average over many collisions with the QCD matter. In modeling the dynamics of this droplet, sameeccentricity,holdsverywell[22–25]. Forthesecond 1 the essential input to the models is an initial distribu- v tion of matter density as createdin a yet not completely harmonics v2 and ε2 it has been found that the correla- 9 understood equilibration process [1]. One of the clearest tionisevenstrongerandarelationv2 =C2ε2 holdsaccu- 6 rately also in individual nuclear collisions [25], not only signal of collective (or fluid dynamical) behavior of such 0 a system is the appearance of non-trivial patterns in the onaverage. Thismeansthatinagivencentralityclassε2 2 istheonlycharacteristicsoftheinitialconditionthatde- . azimuthal distribution of final state hadron spectra [2]. 1 Suchpatternsarecreatedbythefluiddynamicalresponse termines v2, while the proportionality coefficient C2 de- 0 pendsonthedetailsofthefluiddynamicalevolutionina to pressuregradientswhich inturn aregivenby the geo- 4 complicatedway [26]. The simple relationmeans that in 1 metricshapeoftheinitialstate[3,4]. Theprecisedetails : of this response then depend strongly on the transport relative fluctuations δv2 = (v2 −hv2i)/hv2i the propor- v tionality coefficient cancels. Therefore, the probability properties of the matter, e.g. shear viscosity [5–15]. i distribution P(δε ) is the same as the probability distri- X The azimuthal asymmetries of the measured hadron n bution P(δv ). In other words P(δv ) is determined by n n r momentum spectra are usually characterized by the set a the properties of initial state alone and is independent ofFouriercoefficientsv ,andsimilarlytheazimuthaldis- n of the fluid dynamical evolution. Thus, by measuring tributionofmatterinpositionspacecanbecharacterized P(δv ) one gets an immediate access to the fluctuations n by its eccentricity coefficients ε . The determination of n in the initial geometry [25]. the viscosity of the stronglyinteracting matter is largely Recently, the event-by-event distributions of v have based on measured v ’s. However, v ’s do not only de- n n n been measured by the ATLAS [27] and ALICE [28] Col- pend on the fluid dynamical response to ε ’s , but also n laborations. Making use of the result P(δε ) = P(δv ) on the initial values of ε ’s. Therefore, it is essential n n n we use different variants of the Monte-Carlo Glauber thatthe rightinitial conditionis used: determining both (MCG) model to calculate P(δε ), and compare with the transport properties and the initial geometry simul- n ATLAS data. Furthermore, we study the sensitivity of taneously from the available data is a very complicated the distributions to several assumptions underlying the task[16,17]. Thus,findinganobservablethatissensitive MCG model and its extensions. to the initial geometry, but independent of the fluid dy- namical response would simplify the task considerably. Another phenomena where the detailed knowledge of the initial geometrybecomes importantis jet quenching, II. THE MODEL where the observed azimuthal jet suppression patterns depend strongly on the assumed initial state [18, 19]. Wecomputethenormalizedfluctuationsofv byeval- n Inrealisticmodeling,the initialstate geometryfluctu- uating the spatial eccentricity ε of a set of randomly n atesfromonecollisiontotheanotherevenforafixedim- generated initial states for a given centrality class. 2 Westartbydistributingthepotentiallyinteractingob- then consider three different possibilities to initialize the jects in the initial states of the colliding nuclei. In the initial entropy density, default scenario, these are the nucleons, but in an alter- s(x)=Nρbc(x)α, (3) native constituent quark scattering (CQS) scenario, we assumethatthesubstructureofnucleonsintermsofcon- s(x)=Nρwn(x)β, (4) stituent quarks is the relevant level of description. s(x)=N[(fρwn(x)+(1−f)ρbc(x)], (5) In the default case, we use a Woods-Saxon where the parameters α, β and f are fixed to reproduce parametrization of the measured nuclear charge density the centrality dependence of the multiplicity, by assum- [29] to distribute nucleons randomly in a 3-dim volume. ingthatthefinalmultiplicityisproportionaltotheinitial For Pb-nuclei as appropriate for the LHC, our distribu- entropy. We have tested that scaling s → s4/3, corre- tion is given by sponding to the approximate difference between s and e ρ (r)= ρ0 (1) scaling, does not change any of our results. N 1+exp((r−c)/z) In the default scenario, we set N = 1, thus assuming withc=6.61fmandthe skinthicknessz =0.51fm. We that the multiplicity created in each N-N collision is a checkedthat a slightchangesin these parametersdo not constant. In real N-N collisions, the multiplicity fluctu- affect our result significantly. We do not correct for the ates and the relative distribution of multiplicity around nucleonhardcore,i.e.we permitconfigurationsinwhich the mean value exhibits a near universal behaviour, the individual nucleons overlap in 3d space. After generat- so-called KNO scaling [30]. In order to account for this, ing a 3d ensemble of nucleons, we project their position we also take into account a scenario where N is dis- intotransverse(x,y)space. IntheCQSscenario,wedis- tributed according to the KNO distribution. tributethreeconstituentquarksinsideaGaussianradius Thevalue ofσ ischaracteristicforthe interactionpro- of 0.6 fm around the nominal position of each nucleon, cess,andreflectstheprecisephysicsofmatterproduction thenprojectconstituentquarkpositionsinto(x,y)space. insecondaryinteractions. Generalconsiderationssuggest In order to test alternative scalings, we also explore that it should be of the order of the nucleon radius. We a Hard Sphere scenario (HS) in which we set the skin test in the following scenarios involving both constant thickness parameter z = 0 and a Sheet (S) scenario in values σ = 0.6 fm, σ = 1.0 fm and a Gaussian distri- which we mimick a strongly saturated picture in which bution of width ∆σ = 0.3 fm centered around σ = 0.6 we distribute nucleons a priori into a 2d circular surface fm. bounded by the nuclear radius parameter c (in such a Theeventsaredividedintocentralityclassesaccording picture, the center of the nucleus is as dense as the pe- to the total entropy, which is the closest to the central- riphery). BothHSandScanbe combinedwiththe CQS ity selectionin the realexperiments. We further checked scenario. thesensitivityoftheresultstothecentralityselection,by Once the transverse position of the colliding objects consideringalsotheselectionaccordingtoimpactparam- have been specified for two nuclei, we displace the two eter, number of collision participants or the number of distributions by a randomly sampled impact parameter. binarycollisions. Itturnsoutthatnoneoftheseschemes Collisions are evaluated according to a transverse dis- to determine centralitychangesourresults substantially, tance criterion d2 < σ /π. In the case of nucleon- i.e. the details of centrality determination do not matter NN nucleon collisions we take σNN = 64 mb, in the case of for the question of vn fluctuations as long as we do not interacting constituent quarks we use 1/9 of this value consider ultra-central events. to get back to the same cross section in the case of p-p Given ρ(x,y), we compute the center of gravity of the collisions. distribution and shift coordinates such that (0,0) coin- There are four common ways in which EbyE hy- cides with the center of gravity. Next we determine the drodynamics is commonly initialized. Matter can be angular orientation of the εn plane from distributed either according to collision participants 2 2 1 dxdy(x +y )sin(nφ)ρ(x,y) (wounded nucleon, WN) or according to binary colli- Ψ = arctan +π/n n n R dxdy(x2+y2)cos(nφ)ρ(x,y) sions(BC)andthematterdistributioncanbespecifiedin terms of entropy s or energy density e, leading to sWN, R (6) and the eccentricity of the event as eWN, sBC and eBC scenarios. We note that none of thesealoneisabletogiveacorrectcentralitydependence dxdy(x2+y2)cos[n(φ−Ψ )]ρ(x,y) n of the multiplicity. εn = R dxdy(x2+y2)ρ(x,y) (7) For each event, we associate a binary collision and a R wounded nucleon density according to AveragingoveralargenumberO(20.000)ofevents,we determine the mean eccentricity hε i for each centrality Nbin/wn 1 x2 n ρ(x)bin/wn = 2πσ2 exp(cid:18)−2σi2(cid:19) (2) celcacsesntarnicditeyxapsress the fluctuations in terms of the scaled Xi=1 where x is the binary collision point or the position of ε −hε i i δε = n n (8) the woundednucleon,andσ isafree parameter. We will n hε i n 3 where εn is the eccentricity determined for a particular • For central collisions, the scaled fluctuations in v2 event. become universal, i.e. show the same pattern inde- pendent of the underlying geometry. For less cen- tral events, differences between the four different III. RESULTS scenarios become readily apparent. A. Centrality dependence from the Glauber model • As evidenced by the differences between Glauber and HS, the surface diffuseness of the nucleus is a key parameter determining the width of the distri- First, we test the centrality dependence of P(δε2) of bution. the different initial states given by Eqs. (3)–(5). The distributions are shown in Fig. 1 for several centrality • As indicated by the differences between HS and classes and compared to the ATLAS data [27]. The val- sheet,differencesincentraldensityarealsoprobed. ues of the free parameters α, β and f are shown in the This suggests a scenario in which the wide fluc- figure, and we use σ =0.4 fm and N =1. We can make tuations are driven by nucleons at the edge of the following observations: one nucleus, passing (for large impact parameters) • In the mostcentralcollisions allthe different mod- throughthe centralregionofthe othernucleus,i.e. els give the same distribution, and is in practice in what matters is both the probability to have a nu- perfect agreement with the ATLAS data. cleonfarfromthecenterofnucleusAandtheeffect of its passage through nucleus B. This would sug- • WhileitwasobservedinRef.[25]thatthedistribu- gestthatanykindofsaturationgenericallynarrows tions are same for sWN and sBC initializations at the width of the distribution as compared with an RHIC, the same does not hold for the LHC energy unsaturated scenario. due to the larger nucleon-nucleon cross-section. In general sWN initialization at the LHC gives wider • The more realistic scenarios Glauber and CQS are distributions than sBC initializations. This differ- closer to the data, but no scenario can account enceisevenenhancedbythepowersinEqs.(3)and for the full centrality dependence. In particular, (4)requiredtoreproducethecentralitydependence Glauber becomes too narrow above 20% centrality of the multiplicity. and CQS is too wide between 10 and 25% central- ity. • Although the binary collision based initialization, Eq.(3),givesagoodagreementwiththedatainthe Wehavesimilarlystudiedthecentralitydependenceof central collisions and the binary/participant mix- v3 and v4 fluctuations, however these appear to follow ture, Eq. (5), in the peripheral collisions, none of the same generic scaling as observed for v2 in central thesesimplemodelscanfullyaccountthecentrality collisionsanddonotallowtodistinguishdifferentmodels. dependence of the distributions. These results raise the question if a modified version of the Glauber scenario, for instance size scale fluctua- tions or KNO multiplicity fluctuations could not bring B. Initial nuclear geometry the model in agreementwith the data. We explore these possibilitiesfor5-10%centrality(wherethe Glaubersce- Next, we aim at testing the assumptions for the ini- nario gives a wider distribution than the data) and for tialnucleargeometry. Inparticularwetestfourdifferent 35-40%centrality(where the width ofthe data is under- scenarios across the whole centrality range: 1) a stan- estimated). dardMCGlauberscenariobasedonnucleonsdistributed with a realistic Woods-Saxon nuclear density (Glauber), 2) a standard Glauber scenario based on scattering con- C. Size scale and multiplicity fluctuations stituent quarks instead (CQS), 3) a Glauber scenario based on nucleons sampled from a hard sphere distri- bution (HS) 4) a scenario mimicking strong saturation In Fig. 3, we againconsider the sBC Glauber scenario effects in the initial density based on a 2d nucleon sheet and try variations of the parameter σ which represents distribution(S).Inallthesecases,σ =0.6fmandN =1 thesizeofthematterspotgeneratedinanindividualN-N isassumed. Here,weusesimplesBCmodel,withentropy collision in combination with possible KNO-type multi- densitydirectlyproportionaltothe densityofthe binary plicity fluctuations. As the figure demonstrates, there collisions. is no significantdependence oneither ofthese factors,in The centrality dependence of the v2 or ε2 fluctuations particularnocombinationofparametersisabletoshrink from the 0-5% most central to 35-40% peripheral colli- the distribution at central collisions while at the same sionsis shownforthese fourdifferentscenariosandcom- time widen it at large centralities. pared with ATLAS data in Fig. 2. Similar results (not shown here) can be obtained for Several observations are readily apparent: the CQS scenario. 4 ATLAS ρα 0 BC 10 -1 10 0 5% 5 10% − − -2 10 0 ρWβN fρWN+(1−f)ρBC 10 ) -1 210 ǫ 10 15% 15 20% δ − − ( P 10-2 α=0.55 , )2 100 β=1.65 v f=0.84 δ ( -1 P 10 20 25% 25 30% − − 10-2 0 10 -1 10 30 35% 35 40% − − -2 10 −1.0 −0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5−1.0 −0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 δǫ , δv δǫ , δv 2 2 2 2 FIG.1. Centralitydependenceofδv2orδε2fluctuationsinvariousscenariostogeneratetheinitialstatefromtheinitialnucleon distributions. D. Surface thickness • While P(δv2) is constrained to fulfill dδv2P(δv2) = 1 and dδv2δv2P(δv2) = 0 In contrast, we demonstrate in Fig. 4 that there is a bRy construction, the shapRe is, given these con- straints, free. Looking closely at Fig. 4, one may characteristic dependence of the width of the P(δv2) on notethatadifferentvalueofthesurfacediffuseness the surface diffuseness assumed for the nuclear density reproduces the left and side and the right hand distribution Eq. (1) — the distribution widens with in- side of the distribution, i.e. data and model do not creased surface diffuseness and shrinks with decreased match in shape. surfacediffuseness. OfallinfluencestestedforaGlauber model based on colliding nucleons, this is the only one clearly leading to an effect above the statistical uncer- tainty. IV. CONCLUSIONS However, even assuming yet unknown physics allows to make the surface diffuseness a free parameter, there We calculated the centrality dependence of the ec- are two further obstacles: centricity fluctuation spectra from several MC Glauber model based initial states. First, we found that the v2 • The surfacediffuseness alwayscorrelatespositively fluctuations are universal in the most central collisions, with the width of P(v2). However, the central- i.e. independent of the model details, and well described ity dependence of the mismatch between data and by all the models. The same holds for the higher har- model is non-trivial, i.e. in order to account for monicsinallthe centralityclasses. However,noneofthe the data one would have to assume that the sur- models tested here were able to reproduce the centrality facediffusenessofanucleus(whichisapropertyof dependenceofP(δv2)observedbytheATLASCollabora- the particular nucleus) depends on atwhat impact tion. In particular, a simple mixture of binary collisions parameter that nucleus will later collide, which is and wounded nucleons fails to reproduce the fluctuation conceptually very problematic. spectra, except in the most peripheral centrality classes 5 1 ATLAS Glauber 0.1 0-5% 5-10% 0.01 1 ) CQS HS 2 ε δ 0.1 ( P 10-15% 15-20% 0.01 1 ) sheet 2 v δ 0.1 ( P 20-25% 25-30% 0.01 1 0.1 30-35% 35-40% 0.01 -1 -0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5 -1 -0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 δ δε δ δε v , v , 2 2 2 2 FIG. 2. Centrality dependence of δv2 or δε2 fluctuations in various scenarios to generate the initial distributions inside the nuclei (see text). 5-10% centrality 35-40% centrality 100 100 ATLAS data ATLAS data σ = 0.6 fm σ = 0.6 fm 10 σ = 1.0 fm 10 σ = 1.0 fm σ = 0.6 fm, KNO σ = 0.6 fm, KNO σ = 0.6 fm, ∆σ = 0.3 fm σ = 0.6 fm, ∆σ = 0.3 fm )2 σ = 0.6 fm, ∆σ = 0.3 fm, KNO )2 σ = 0.6 fm, ∆σ = 0.3 fm, KNO δv 1 δv 1 ( ( P P ), ), 2 2 ε0.1 ε0.1 δ δ ( ( P P 0.01 0.01 0.001 0.001 -1 -0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 -1 -0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 δε , δv δε , δv 2 2 2 2 FIG. 3. Dependenceof δv2 fluctuations on multiplicity or N-Ncollision geometry size scale fluctuations. considered here. These findings suggest that the geometrical fluctua- tions in the positions of the nucleons are not enough to We also identified several parameters that do not af- explain the data, but some non-linear dynamics in the fect the distribution, like KNO fluctuations and the size creation of the matter and/or additional sources of fluc- of the matter spots generated in the individual NN col- tuations arenecessary. Bothof these propertiesarereal- lisions. We further demonstrated that the distributions izedintheQCDbasedinitialstatemodels. Forexample, are sensitive to simple non-linear parametrizationsgiven pQCD+saturationmodelinRef.[31,32]leadstoasim- byEqs.(3)and(4),aswellasbythechangesintheinitial ilarnon-linearbehavioroftheentropydensityasEq. (3) distributions of the interacting objects. 6 35-40% centrality and the sub-nucleon color fluctuations in Refs. [33] pre- sumably lead to a similar effect on the distributions as 100 the CQS model above. 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