Collective flow and viscosity in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Nuclear Theory
2013-08-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Collective flow, its anisotropies and its event-to-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and the extraction of the specific shear viscosity of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) from collective flow data collected in heavy-ion collision experiments at RHIC and LHC are reviewed. Specific emphasis is placed on the similarities between the Big Bang of our universe and the Little Bangs created in heavy-ion collisions.
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@article{arxiv.1301.2826,
title = {Collective flow and viscosity in relativistic heavy-ion collisions},
author = {Ulrich W Heinz and Raimond Snellings},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.2826},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
38 pages (incl. 11 figures), 145 references. Invited review prepared for Annual Review in Nuclear and Particle Physics 63 (2013)