Anisotropic flow and jet quenching in ultra-relativistic U+U collisions
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-09 v2 Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Full-overlap U+U collisions provide significantly larger initial energy densities at comparable spatial deformation, and significantly larger deformation and volume at comparable energy density, than semicentral Au+Au collisions. We show quantitatively that this provides a long lever arm for studying the hydrodynamic behavior of elliptic flow in much larger and denser collision systems and the predicted non-linear path-length dependence of radiative parton energy loss.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0411054,
title = {Anisotropic flow and jet quenching in ultra-relativistic U+U collisions},
author = {Ulrich Heinz and Anthony Kuhlman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0411054},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, incl. 5 figures. First figure of v1 removed due to space limitations. Title changed by journal request. Minor other changes and a few references added or updated. This version accepted by Physical Review Letters