Light-Heavy Ion Collisions: A window into pre-equilibrium QCD dynamics?
Abstract
Relativistic collisions of light on heavy ions (p+Au at sqrt(s)=7.7 GeV, p+Au, d+Au,3He+Au at sqrt(s)=62.4 GeV and 200 GeV and p+Pb, 3He+Pb at sqrt(s)=5.02 TeV) are simulated using "superSONIC", a model that includes pre-equilibrium flow, viscous hydrodynamics and a hadronic cascade afterburner. Even though these systems have strong gradients and only consist of at most a few tens of charged particles per unit rapidity, one finds evidence that a hydrodynamic description applies to these systems. Based on these simulations, the presence of a triangular flow component in d+Au collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV is predicted to be similar in magnitude to that found in 3He+Au collisions. Furthermore, the v3(p_T) ratio of 3He+Au to d+Au is found to be sensitive to the presence of pre-equilibrium flow. This would imply an experimentally accessible window into pre-equilibrium QCD dynamics using light-heavy ion collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1502.04745,
title = {Light-Heavy Ion Collisions: A window into pre-equilibrium QCD dynamics?},
author = {Paul Romatschke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.04745},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages plus appendix; 9 figures