schematic illustration of longitudinal variation in quark gluon plasma (IMAGE)
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This illustration shows the interplay of three possible sources of triangular flow in asymmetric collisions such as deuteron-gold: fluctuations in nucleon position (nuclear shape), fluctuations in nucleon position plus their inner quark and gluon constituents, and fluctuations along the beam direction commonly referred to as longitudinal decorrelations.
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Brookhaven National Laboratory
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