Correlated gluonic hot spots meet symmetric cumulants data at LHC energies López Albacete, Javier Niemi, Harri Petersen, Hannah Soto-Ontoso, Alba Initial state Small systems Hot spots Correlations Elliptic flow We present a systematic study on the influence of spatial correlations between the proton constituents, in our case gluonic hot spots, their size and their number on the symmetric cumulant SC(2, 3), at the eccentricity level, within a Monte Carlo Glauber framework [1]. When modeling the proton as composed by 3 gluonic hot spots, the most common assumption in the literature, we find that the inclusion of spatial correlations is indispensable to reproduce the negative sign of SC(2, 3) in the highest centrality bins as dictated by data. Further, the subtle interplay between the different scales of the problem is discussed. To conclude, the possibility of feeding a 2+1D viscous hydrodynamic simulation with our entropy profiles is exposed. 2020-01-15T11:49:10Z 2020-01-15T11:49:10Z 2018 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Albacete, J. L., Niemi, H., Petersen, H., & Soto-Ontoso, A. (2019). Correlated gluonic hot spots meet symmetric cumulants data at LHC energies. Nuclear Physics A, 982, 463-466. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/58773 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.08.013 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España Elsevier BV