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Effect of bulk viscosity on interferometry correlations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Nuclear Theory 2017-05-24 v1

Abstract

A temperature dependent bulk viscosity coefficient is used in 3+1D hydrodynamic simulations. I study the effect of the increase of bulk viscosity around the critical temperature on the system dynamics in central Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=2760\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2760~GeV. With increasing bulk viscosity the life-time of the system increases slightly. Also the shape of the freeze-out hypersurface changes, the outer layers of the fireball live longer. This effect causes a small reduction of the ratio of two interferometry radii Rout/RsideR_{out}/R_{side}, improving the agreement with experimental data.

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@article{arxiv.1702.01319,
  title  = {Effect of bulk viscosity on interferometry correlations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions},
  author = {Piotr Bozek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.01319},
  year   = {2017}
}