3D multi-system Bayesian calibration with energy conservation to study rapidity-dependent dynamics of nuclear collisions

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235

^* e-mail: andi.mankolli@vanderbilt.edu

Published online: 26 June 2024

Abstract

Considerable information about the early-stage dynamics of heavyion collisions is encoded in the rapidity dependence of measurements. To leverage the large amount of experimental data, we perform a systematic analysis using three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of multiple collision systems — large and small, symmetric and asymmetric. Specifically, we perform fully 3D multi-stage hydrodynamic simulations initialized by a parameterized model for rapidity-dependent energy deposition, which we calibrate on the hadron multiplicity and anisotropic flow coefficients. We utilize Bayesian inference to constrain properties of the early- and late-time dynamics of the system, and highlight the impact of enforcing global energy conservation in our 3D model.