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Effect of bulk viscosity on Elliptic Flow near QCD phase transition

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-12-14 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Effects of the bulk viscosity on the elliptic flow are studied. To introduce a realistic equation of state and transport coefficients, we apply the results of the lattice QCD and hadron resonance gas calculations for these quantities. We found that the bulk viscosity acts in a non trivial manner on the elliptic flow v2v_{2}. The reduction of v2v_{2} is more effective at low pTp_{T} compared to the case of shear viscosity, whereas at high pTp_{T}, the situation is reversed, leading to v2v_{2} enhancement. We argue that this is caused by the competition of the critical behaviors of the equation of state and the transport coefficients. We further found that Grad's method with the 14 moments approximation is not applicable to estimate the viscous effects for the one-particle distribution function at the freeze out.

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@article{arxiv.0903.3595,
  title  = {Effect of bulk viscosity on Elliptic Flow near QCD phase transition},
  author = {G. S. Denicol and T. Kodama and T. Koide and Ph. Mota},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3595},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, 12 figures