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Rapidity Correlation Structure in Nuclear Collisions

Nuclear Theory 2016-09-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show that measurements of the rapidity dependence of transverse momentum correlations can be used to determine the characteristic time τπ\tau_\pi that dictates the rate of isotropization of the stress energy tensor, as well as the shear viscosity ν=η/sT\nu = \eta/sT. We formulate methods for computing these correlations using second order dissipative hydrodynamics with noise. Current data are consistent with τπ/ν10\tau_\pi/\nu \sim 10, but targeted measurements can improve this precision.

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@article{arxiv.1606.02692,
  title  = {Rapidity Correlation Structure in Nuclear Collisions},
  author = {Sean Gavin and George Moschelli and Christopher Zin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02692},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages, 6 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C

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