The PHOBOS Glauber Monte Carlo
By Burak Han Alver, M. Baker, Constantin Loizides, P. Steinberg. 2008
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``Glauber'' models are used to calculate geometric quantities in the initial state of heavy ion collisions, such as impact parameter, number of participating nucleons and initial eccentricity. The four RHIC experiments have different methods for Glauber Model calculations, leading to similar results for various geometric observables. In this document, we describe an implementation of the Monte Carlo based Glauber Model calculation used by the PHOBOS experiment. The assumptions that go in the calculation are described. A user's guide is provided for running various calculations.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Improved Monte Carlo Glauber predictions at present and future nuclear colliders (2017, methodology): “The implementation of the MCG calculation is described in detail in [6, 7].”
- Evidence for transverse momentum and pseudorapidity dependent event plane fluctuations in PbPb and pPb collisions (2015, methodology): “Two different models of initial conditions, MC-Glauber [46, 47] and MC-KLN (motivated by the concept of gluon saturation) [48], are compared to data.”
- Non linearities in the harmonic spectrum of heavy ion collisions with ideal and viscous hydrodynamics (2012, methodology): “The necessary Glauber correlations are determined using the Phobos Monte Carlo Glauber Model [29], and we note that there is a very strong geometric correlation between participant planes differing by two, e.g.〈〈 C5 2 3ei(5Φ5−3Φ3−2Φ2) 〉〉 , and 〈〈 1 2 3e i(3Φ3−Φ1−2Φ2) 〉〉 .”