Phi-measure of azimuthal fluctuations

Abstract

The event-by-event azimuthal fluctuations in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are analyzed by means of the so-called Phi-measure. The fluctuations due to the collective transverse flow and those caused by the quantum statistics and resonance decays in the hadron gas are discussed in detail.

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure, revised version