Elliptic flow from a parton cascade
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-09 v1
Abstract
The dependence of elliptic flow at RHIC energies on the effective parton scattering cross section is calculated using the ZPC parton cascade model. We show that the v_2 measure of elliptic flow saturates early in the evolution before the hadronization transition to a rather large value ~0.05-0.15 as \sigma_g varies from 2-10 mb and thus is a sensitive probe of the dynamics in the plasma phase.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9902016,
title = {Elliptic flow from a parton cascade},
author = {Bin Zhang and Miklos Gyulassy and Che Ming Ko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9902016},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages, 4 figures