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Bulk viscosity effects on elliptic flow

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-18 v2

Abstract

The effects of bulk viscosity on the elliptic flow v2v_{2} are studied using realistic equation of state and realistic transport coefficients. We find that thebulk viscosity acts in a non trivial manner on v2v_{2}. At low pTp_{T}, the reduction of v2v_{2} is even more effective compared to the case of shear viscosity, whereas at high pTp_{T}, an enhancement of v2v_{2} compared to the ideal case is observed. We argue that this is caused by the competition of the critical behavior of the equation of state and the transport coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.0907.4269,
  title  = {Bulk viscosity effects on elliptic flow},
  author = {G. S. Denicol and T. Kodama and T. Koide and Ph. Mota},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4269},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee

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