Elliptic flow from partially thermalized heavy-ion collisions
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We study to what extent the measured elliptic flow at RHIC constrains viscous deviations from ideal hydrodynamics. We solve a toy model where only transverse momenta are thermalized while the system undergoes longitudinal free-streaming. We show that RHIC data exclude such a model and thus require fast 3-dimensional thermalization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0209027,
title = {Elliptic flow from partially thermalized heavy-ion collisions},
author = {Ulrich Heinz and Stephen M. H. Wong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0209027},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages (incl. 2 postscript figures); uses espcrc1.sty (included in submission). Talk given at Quark Matter 2002, Nantes, June 18-24, 2002, to appear in the proceedings in Nucl. Phys. A