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Footprints of the (Nearly) Perfect Liquid

Nuclear Experiment 2009-11-18 v2

Abstract

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the system has gone through a series of evolution, almost at every stage of its evolution it leaves behind footprints in flow observable. Those footprints contain valuable information of the bulk property of the (nearly) perfect liquid. By examing footprints of the nearly perfect liquid, we address a few important issues, including the ideal hydrodynamic limit, estimation of η/s\eta/s, testing the Number of Constituent Quark scaling at low energy, in small system, at large transverse momentum, and in forward region. Future prospect of flow study is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0907.4513,
  title  = {Footprints of the (Nearly) Perfect Liquid},
  author = {Aihong Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4513},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 9 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee. Minor corrections