Hydrodynamic predictions for 5.02 TeV Pb-Pb collisions
Nuclear Theory
2016-03-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We make predictions for momentum-integrated elliptic and triangular flow as well as mean transverse momentum for 5.02 TeV Pb-Pb collisions, as planned at the Large Hadron Collider. We use hydrodynamic calculations to predict the change of these observables as the center-of-mass collision energy evolves from 2.76 TeV to 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair. By using previously measured values as a baseline, we are able to make a robust prediction without relying on a particular model for initial conditions and without precise knowledge of medium properties such as viscosity. Thus, though the predicted changes are small, they can provide a significant test of the current hydrodynamic picture of heavy-ion collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1511.06289,
title = {Hydrodynamic predictions for 5.02 TeV Pb-Pb collisions},
author = {Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler and Matthew Luzum and Jean-Yves Ollitrault},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.06289},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures