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arxiv: 0804.3655 · v3 · submitted 2008-04-23 · ⚛️ nucl-th

Reexamination for the calculation of elliptic flow and other fourier harmonics

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We have argued that the azimuthal symmetry and asymmetry components in fourier expansion of particle momentum azimuthal distribution, $v_n$ (n=0, 1, 2, ...), should be calculated as an average of $cos(n\phi)$ first over particles in an event and then over events (event-wise average) rather than "an average over all particles in all events" (particle-wise average). In case of large centrality (multiplicity) bin the particle-wise average is not accurate because the influence (fluctuation) of particle multiplicity was not taken into account.

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