Rapidity Decorrelation from Hydrodynamic Fluctuations and Initial Fluctuations

Abstract

Rapidity decorrelation in high energy heavy-ion collisions is one of the hot topics in understanding longitudinal dynamics of the quark gluon plasma (QGP). In this study we employ an integrated dynamical model with full three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamics and perform event-by-event numerical simulations of Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC energy. We analyze factorization ratios to understand rapidity decorrelation from hydrodynamic fluctuations and initial longitudinal fluctuations. We show that factorization breaking happens due to both hydrodynamic fluctuations and initial longitudinal fluctuations. We conclude hydrodynamic fluctuations and initial longitudinal fluctuations are both important in understanding rapidity decorrelation.