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Collective flow from ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is an important hadronic observable sensitive to the early stages of system evolution. We have calculated flow components from a tilted, ellipsoidally expanding source. We also reviewed the recent experimental techniques used for calculation of the v nFourier coefficients and pointed out a few possible problems connected to these techniques, which may lead to serious inaccuracy in the flow analysis.
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Nyíri, Á., Csernai, L.P. Collective phenomena in heavy ion collisions. Acta Phys. Hung. A 22, 381–390 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1556/APH.22.2005.3-4.25
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