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Does the NJL chiral phase transition affect the elliptic flow of a fluid at fixed $\eta/s$?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-20 v1 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We have derived and solved numerically the Boltzmann-Vlasov transport equations that includes both two-body collisions and the chiral phase transition by mean of NJL-field dynamics. The scope is to understand if the field dynamics supply new genuine effects on the build-up of the elliptic flow v2v_2, a measure of the asymmetry in the momentum space, and in particular if it can affect the relation between v2v_2 and the shear viscosity to entropy ratio η/s\eta/s. Solving the transport equation with a constant cross section for the condition of Au+AuAu+Au collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 AGeV it is shown a sizable suppression of v2v_2 due to the attractive nature of the field dynamics that generates the constituent mass. However the key result is that if η/s\eta/s of the system is kept fixed by an appropriate local renormalization of the cross section the v2v_2 does not depend on the details of the collisional and/or field dynamics and in particular it is not affected significantly by the chiral phase transition.

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@article{arxiv.1001.2736,
  title  = {Does the NJL chiral phase transition affect the elliptic flow of a fluid at fixed $\eta/s$?},
  author = {S. Plumari and V. Baran and M. Di Toro and G. Ferini and V. Greco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2736},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures