Higher harmonics of azimuthal anisotropy in relativistic heavy ion collisions in HYDJET++ model

Abstract

The LHC data on azimuthal anisotropy harmonics from PbPb collisions at center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair are analyzed and interpreted in the framework of the HYDJET++ model. The cross-talk of elliptic $v_2$ and triangular $v_3$ flow in the model generates both even and odd harmonics of higher order. Comparison with the experimental data shows that this mechanism is able to reproduce the $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ and centrality dependencies of quadrangular flow $v_4$, and also the basic trends for pentagonal $v_5$ and hexagonal $v_6$ flows.

Comments: 12 pages including 13 figures as EPS-files; prepared using LaTeX package for publication in the European Physical Journal C