Collective flow and QCD phase transition
Nuclear Theory
2015-06-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
In the first part I discuss the sensitivity of collective matter expansion in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions to the transition between quark and hadronic matter (physics of the softest point of the Equation of State). A kink in the centrality dependence of elliptic flow has been suggested as a signature for the phase transition in hot QCD matter. Indeed, preliminary data of NA49 presented at this conference show first indications for the predicted kink. In the second part I have a look at the present theories of heavy-ion reactions. These remarks may also be seen as a critical comment to B. Mueller's summary talk (nucl-th/9906029) presented at this conference.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9906051,
title = {Collective flow and QCD phase transition},
author = {Heinz Sorge},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9906051},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Write-up of QM '99 talk. Typo's corrected