Is there elliptic flow without transverse flow?
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Azimuthal anisotropy of final particle distributions was originally introduced as a signature of transverse collective flow. We show that finite anisotropy in momentum space can result solely from the shape of the particle emitting source. However, by comparing the differential anisotropy to recent data from STAR collaboration we can exclude such a scenario, but instead show that the data favour strong flow as resulting from a hydrodynamical evolution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0104020,
title = {Is there elliptic flow without transverse flow?},
author = {P. Huovinen and P. F. Kolb and U. Heinz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0104020},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in proceedings of Quark Matter 2001, 4 pages LaTeX, uses espcrc1.sty