Elliptic flow at RHIC and LHC in the string percolation approach
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2012-06-29 v1
Abstract
The percolation of strings gives a good description of the RHIC experimental data on the elliptic flow, v2 and predicted a rise on the integrated v2 of the order of 25% at LHC such as it has been experimentally obtained. We show that the dependence of v2 on pT for RHIC and LHC energies is approximately the same as it has been observed, for all the centralities. We show the results for different particles and the dependence of v2 on the centralities and rapidity. Our results are compatible with an small value of the ratio eta/s in the whole energy range such as it was expected in the percolation framework.
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@article{arxiv.1102.3837,
title = {Elliptic flow at RHIC and LHC in the string percolation approach},
author = {I. Bautista and J. Dias de Deus and C. Pajares},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3837},
year = {2012}
}
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20 pages, 12 figures