Characterization and analysis of azimuthally sensitive correlations

Abstract

A unified framework for describing the azimuthal dependence of two-particle correlations in heavy-ion collisions is introduced, together with the methods for measuring the corresponding observables. The generalization to azimuthal correlations between more than two particles is presented.

Comments: 7 pages; talk given at Hot Quarks 2004, Taos (NM), July 18-24,2004