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A transverse momentum differential global analysis of Heavy Ion Collisions

Nuclear Theory 2021-05-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The understanding of heavy ion collisions and its quark-gluon plasma formation requires a complicated interplay of rich physics in a wealth of experimental data. In this work we compare for identified particles the transverse momentum dependence of both the yields and the anisotropic flow coefficients for both PbPb and ppPb collisions. We do this in a global model fit including a free streaming prehydrodynamic phase with variable velocity vfsv_\text{fs}, thereby widening the scope of initial conditions. During the hydrodynamic phase we vary three second order transport coefficients. The free streaming velocity has a preference slightly below the speed of light. In this extended model the bulk viscosity is small and even consistent with zero.

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@article{arxiv.2010.15130,
  title  = {A transverse momentum differential global analysis of Heavy Ion Collisions},
  author = {Govert Nijs and Wilke van der Schee and Umut Gürsoy and Raimond Snellings},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15130},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, 6 figures, see also the companion paper "A Bayesian analysis of Heavy Ion Collisions with Trajectum" (2010.15134). v2: added Fig 7