Hydrodynamic analysis of heavy ion collisions at RHIC
Nuclear Theory
2010-01-15 v1
Abstract
Current status of dynamical modeling of relativistic heavy ion collisions and hydrodynamic description of the quark gluon plasma is reported. We find the hadronic rescattering effect plays an important role in interpretation of mass splitting pattern in the differential elliptic flow data observed at RHIC. To demonstrate this, we predict the elliptic flow parameter for phi mesons to directly observe the flow just after hadronisation. We also discuss recent applications of outputs from hydrodynamic calculations to J/psi suppression, thermal photon radiation and heavy quark diffusion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.4651,
title = {Hydrodynamic analysis of heavy ion collisions at RHIC},
author = {Tetsufumi Hirano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.4651},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
8 pages, 8 figures, talk given at SQM2008, Beijing, China, Oct. 6-10, 2008