# Hybrid Color Glass Condensate and hydrodynamic description of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider small system scan

## TL;DR

This paper combines initial state momentum anisotropies from the Color Glass Condensate with hydrodynamic evolution to better understand small system collisions at RHIC, emphasizing the importance of initial conditions for accurate modeling.

## Contribution

It introduces a hybrid model integrating Color Glass Condensate initial conditions with hydrodynamics and demonstrates its effectiveness in describing small system collision data.

## Key findings

- Final state interactions are essential for reproducing experimental anisotropy data.
- Initial state details significantly impact the quantitative results.
- Initial momentum anisotropy correlates with observed elliptic flow, especially at lower multiplicities.

## Abstract

Multi-particle correlation observables in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider small system scan are computed in a framework that contains both initial state momentum anisotropies from the Color Glass Condensate effective theory and final state hydrodynamic evolution. The initial state is computed using the IP-Glasma model and coupled to viscous relativistic hydrodynamic simulations, which are followed by microscopic hadronic transport. All parameters of the calculation were previously constrained using experimental data on Au+Au collisions at the same center of mass energy. We find that the qualitative features of the experimental data, such as the system and centrality dependence of the charged hadron momentum anisotropy, can only be reproduced when final state interactions are present. On the other hand, we also demonstrate that the details of the initial state are crucially important for the quantitative description of observables in the studied small systems, as neglecting the initial transverse flow profile or the initial shear stress tensor, which contain information on the momentum anisotropy from the Color Glass Condensate, has dramatic effects on the produced final state anisotropy. We further show that the initial state momentum anisotropy is correlated with the observed elliptic flow in all small systems, with the effect increasing with decreasing multiplicity. We identify the precise measurement of $v_2$ in d+Au and Au+Au collisions at RHIC energy at the same multiplicity as a means to reveal effects of the initial state momentum anisotropy.