2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/81223The elliptic flow measured at RHIC has been interpreted as a signature for strong partonic interactions early in the collision and as an indication of a well developed quark-gluon plasma phase. The measured values of elliptic flow, using methods based on multi-particle correlations, are affected by fluctuations in the magnitude of the elliptic flow. In this Letter, using a Monte Carlo Glauber calculation, we estimate what the possible effect of spatial eccentricity fluctuations is on the determination of elliptic flow.4 pages, 4 figures, version 2 replaces fig 4a which had one line missingNuclear Experimenttext