• ALICE Collaboration

The event-by-event correlations between three flow amplitudes are measured for the first time in Pb-Pb collisions, using higher-order symmetric cumulants. We find that different three-harmonic correlations develop during the collective evolution of the medium when compared to correlations that exist in the initial state. These new results cannot be interpreted in terms of previous lower-order flow measurements since contributions from two-harmonic correlations are explicitly removed in the new observables. A comparison to Monte Carlo simulations provides new and independent constraints for the initial conditions and system properties of nuclear matter created in heavy-ion collisions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number092302
Number of pages13
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume127
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Aug 2021

    Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

    Research areas

  • HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS, COLLECTIVE-FLOW, EXPANSION, VISCOSITY, DYNAMICS

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